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increase of intensity in the colour of a rift between N.W. and N.N.W. was noticed. 
Colours, chiefly violet, were noted in the S.W. just at the end of totality.” 
Landscape Colours. 
Lieutenant Dugmore has supplied the following statement as to the work in this 
section :— 
This party consisted of six—one officer and five men—and was exercised every day 
from January 12th to January 21st inclusive. 
The period during which the landscape most resembled the landscape of an eclipse 
was between 5 and 10 minutes after sunset, and this was the time selected each day 
for practice. 
For the eclipse four of the party were stationed on a small hill inside the Fort of 
Yiziadrug, and one of them was told off* for each quadrant of the horizon, while the 
other two made notes of landscape in all directions from the “ Melpomene.” 
At the beginning of the eclipse little change took place in the appearance of the 
landscape. It gradually grew darker till about 5 minutes before totality occurred, 
when it appeared as in a very bright moonlight night, and continued so up to the 
Instant of the commencement of totality. Then the land became a dense black 
colour, except the distant hills, which assumed a delicate neutral tint. The lieavens 
darkened to a very deep blue ; the sky Ijy the horizon became pink and yellow, with 
bright blue above the streaks, except in N.W., where a neutral tiiit appeared under a 
yellow streak. The sea changed from a bright greenish-blue to a rich dark blue, 
except the calm spots, which were of a very pale blue tint. The wind changed from 
east to west at about 8 minutes before totality, it being almost calm during the 
phenomenon. There were no clouds. 
Landscape Cameras. 
A number of ordinary cameras being available, it was determined to utilise them in 
attempts to secure records of a variety of phenomena. 
Mr. A. W. Turner, the photographer sent down by the Survey Office at Calcutta, 
undertook to give the men the necessary instruction, and himself took charge of one 
of the instruments. 
A 10" X 8" camera was placed in position to photograph the corona by using a spare 
part of the coelostat mirror, a small diagonal mirror being introduced so that tlie 
camera did not interfere with the coronograph and integrator. Two exposures were 
made by Mr. Turner during totality, one with an exposure of 100 seconds, and the 
other with an exposure of 20 seconds. The long exposure gave an excellent result, 
the great streamer in the south-west being depicted through a distance of three lunar 
diameters. 
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