A total solar eclipse occurred at the Moon's descending node of orbit between Saturday, June 8 and Sunday, June 9, 1918, with a magnitude of 1.0292. A solar eclipse occurs when the Moon passes between
1918 Solar eclipse painting by Howard Russell Butler
Aerial view of Baker City, Oregon, in 1918.
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The Yerkes Observatory is located in Williams Bay, Wisconsin, United States. It was operated by the University of Chicago Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics from its founding in 1897 until 2018.
Solar eclipse of June 8, 1918
…visible five minutes later. This was not unusual, as cloudy conditions were reported across the country, where the eclipse was also observed from the Yerkes Observatory, Lick Observatory, and Mount Wilson Observatory. Following the 1915 prediction of Albert Einstein's General theory of relativity that light would be…
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1897 photo of the 40 in (100 cm) refractor at the Yerkes Observatory.
Telescope controls of the 40 in (100 cm) refractor
Alvan Graham Clark polishes the big Yerkes objective lens in 1896