Magnetic Observations During a Solar Eclipse

Abstract

THE September issue of Terrestrial Magnetism and Atmospheric Electricity is mainly devoted to magnetic observations taken during the total solar eclipse of June 8, 1918. Dr. Bauer, the head of the magnetic department of the Carnegie Institution of Washington, has interested himself in similar work during previous eclipses, and in March, 1918, he issued an appeal for co-operative effort on the occasion of the June eclipse. As a result, observations were taken at a number of stations. Seven of these, in different parts of the United States, were within the belt of totality. There were, besides, eight special field stations in the United States and Canada outside the belt of totality, while observations were taken at twelve ordinary observatories. Dr. Bauer himself observed at Corona, Colorado, a station 11,800 ft. above sea-level.