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Thursday, October 13, 1977
University Daily Kansan
Students watch as partial eclipse blocks sun's rays
By MARY HOENK Staff Writer
Solar
At least 200 people stopped by one of five telescopes on campus yesterday to catch a glimpse of a partial solar eclipse.
Stephen Shaw, associate professor of physics and astronomy, said yesterday that this was the first time telescopes had been set up on campus to view an eclipse. The eclipse began at 3:06 p.m. and reached its maximum, in Kansas, of 20 per cent at 3:55 p.m. The maximum lasted for two minutes, 48 seconds.
Matt Davis, a member of the Astromony Associates of Lawrence, which sponsored the equipment, manned one telescope across from Bailey Hall. Davis spent the
afternoon positioning a four-inch image of the eclipse onto a metal plate attached to a telescope and answering observers' questions.
ONE OBSERVER, Sue Rieger, Overland Park junior, said that she had never seen an eclipse on a metal screen and that it was going to temptation of looking directly at the sun.
Although there were many students who seemed to have a positive reaction to watching the eclipse, there was at least one observer who appeared disappointed with being able to watch the sun without wearing a face mask, the only places from which a total eclipse could be witnessed in parts of South America and in the middle of the Pacific Ocean.
Solar eclipse
Building disrepair forces closing of halfway house
Ashley House, 344 Missouri ST., a halfway house for alcoholic criminal offenders, has been forced to close because of the condition of its building, Bruce Beale, director of the Douglas County Citizens' Committee on Alcoholism, said yesterday.
Beaile said the Kansas Department of Health and Environment wanted him to replace the plumbing and wiring and to renovate the walls and flooring of the house.
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Shawl said there were people who would go anywhere to see a total eclipse. Some people paid up $1,715 to buy a passage on a cruise ship to witness a total solar eclipse.
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"It just seems as if the whole eclipse is wasted in the ocean," he said.
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At the other end of campus, on top of Lindley Hall, the KU observatory was packed with students and faculty watching a two-foot image projected by a telescope onto a screen. Wyman Storer, professor emeritus of physics and astronomy, described the eclipse to observers, pointing out sun spots that were illuminated and were mountains on the edge of the moon.
In addition to the screen, people at the
SHAWL SAID he received reports that there were many observers at the three other telescopes, which were used on up Dia Hill, near Oliver Hall and near the Kansas
observatory also viewed the sun through developed photographic film or by projecting the sun onto paper through a piece of cardboard pierced with a pin hole.
Viewing eclipses is scientifically important to astronomers. Shawl said. One reason is that eclipses are proof of Einstein's theory of relativity. Eclipses also provide an opportunity for the study of Mars, comets and asteroids, which normally are blocked from the earth's view by the sun.
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KU does not have the equipment to gather this tive of information, he said.
But he added that he thought setting up the telescopes on campus was important for our education.
"We set this up to make葵available to as many people as possible. 'Shira said, 'We'll have to do it every day.'"
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it there are people who missed this eclipse and still are interested in star gaging, Shawl said, they can take advantage of clear Friday nights when the astronomy association opens the observatory to the public beginning at 8:30 p.m.
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