NO. 9 BRIGHTNESS OF LUNAR ECLIPSES FISHER 23 



1901 X 27; 0.228; Grade i 



c Great Slave Lake, Greenland, S. Scandinavia, C. Europe. 



Zlatinsky, Mitava, Russia, (181) ; moon rose out of haze, about a 

 0=13.5 lialf-hour before mid-eclipse; about 10 m. after mid-eclipse, Tycho 



visible in shadow. 7.5 cm., civil twilight. 



190S IV 22; 1.338; Grade i 



c Antarctic, S. Atlantic, Senegambia, Spain, Sweden, Nova Zemlya, 



Okhotsk Sea, Pacific, New Zealand. 



Khalatov, Tiflis, (185) ; sky not stated, 

 b = 2.6 Even with opera-glass, the Mare Serenitatis and Mare Imbrium have 



the appearance of two black spots. Later, 10.8 cm., various craters ; 



the contours of the principal seas very distinct. 



" Mathcmaticus," Syra, Greece, (186) ; sky not thoroughly black, yet 



even the smallest stars visible. 

 c = 2.8 The color of the moon's disk was very dark, so dark as he has never 



observed since .... October 4, 1884. 



Godden, London, Engl., (183) ; sky gray; astronomical twilight, 

 d 6.6 e 3 inch ; area in shadow invisible. Thinks it as dark as October 4, 1884. 



Goodacre, London, Engl., (184); cloudy; astronomical twilight. 

 d 6.6 e The shadow .... very dark, almost black, and quite obscured the 



eclipsed limb when looked at with a binocular and 3 inch refractor. 



Zlatinsky, Mitava, Russia, (189) ; fine sky, astronomical twilight. 

 0=7.2 7.5 cm.; Aristarchus, Copernicus, Kepler, all the seas. 



Wejnek, Prague, (188) ; sky cloudless throughout; twilight. 

 = 7.9 3 observers, with 9.76 cm., 6.27 cm., 8.37 cm.; within the umbra 



remarkably little detail was visible. 



AUandcr, Malmo, Sweden, (182) ; sky not stated; twilight. 

 = 14.4 Could see the various maria with the n. e. 



Parr, Florence, Italy, (187) ; sky not stated; twilight, 

 c > 20 3 inch ; seas, etc., visible. 



Grade i is a compromise among remarkable discrepancies. 



1902 X 16; 1.464; Grade i 



c Arctic O., Khamchatka, Pacific, Antarctica, S. Atlantic, Ashanti, near 



Marseille, Sweden. 

 Barnard, Yerkes Observatory, (190) ; favorable conditions. 



c^i.i [Had observed 6 total eclipses.] The present eclipse was by far the 



darkest For a portion of the time the eastern and western 



edges could not be seen with the eye Very few details were 



visible in the telescope [6 inch] during totality. Aristarchus and some 

 of the darker regions could be made out dimly. Tycho and the details 



in its region were not visible No details of the surface were 



visible with the n. e., though at previous eclipses such have been seen. 

 Payne, Northfield, Minn., (198) ; broken clouds. 



= 1.2 5 inch; during the last part, all the prominent features of the surface 

 were easily seen, and many of the lesser ones could be recognized. 

 O'Halloran, San Francisco, Cal., (197) ; sky not stated. 



