{"id":2145,"date":"2019-05-29T14:46:23","date_gmt":"2019-05-29T13:46:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/esundy.nuclio.org\/?p=2145"},"modified":"2025-05-29T11:00:54","modified_gmt":"2025-05-29T10:00:54","slug":"29-of-may-at-principe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/esundy.nuclio.org\/index.php\/en\/2019\/05\/29\/29-of-may-at-principe\/","title":{"rendered":"29 of May at Principe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\nArthur S. Eddington comments on the eclipse of <strong>May 29<\/strong>, 1919, six weeks after returning to England.<br \/>\nThe days that preceded the eclipse were very foggy. On the morning of May 29 there was a heavy thunderstorm from 10 to 11:30, a rare occurrence at that time of year. The sun appears for\u00a0a few minutes, but the clouds come back again. About half an hour before the totality, the sun appeared from time to time; and when it was 1h55m PM (GMT) we could see it through a\u00a0passing cloud. According to our calculations, the totality time should be between 2h.1m and 5s and 2h.18m.7s, that is, the eclipse should last 5m and 2s, and that&#8217;s exactly what happened. A\u00a0few minutes after the totality, the sun appeared in a perfectly clear sky, but this did not last long. It is probable that the disappearance of the clouds was due to the eclipse itself, since we\u00a0had noticed that the sky only used to lighten at sunset.<br \/>\nIt was a wonderful spectacle, and the photographs later revealed a beautiful luminous prominence some 170 km above the surface of the sun. But we did not even have time to observe her.\u00a0We were simply aware of the strange half-light of the landscape and the silence of nature, broken by the calls of the observers, and the beat of the metronome beating the 302 seconds of the\u00a0totality (of the eclipse).<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\nText by Ana Sim\u00f5es e Paulo Crawford<br \/>\nPicture: Courtesy of the Observat\u00f3rio Astron\u00f3mico de Lisboa<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/esundy.nuclio.org\/index.php\/en\/british-expeditions-for-the-1919-solar-total-eclipse-step-by-step\/\">back<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Arthur S. Eddington comments on the eclipse of May 29, 1919, six weeks after returning to England. The days [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2142,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-british-expeditons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/esundy.nuclio.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2145","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/esundy.nuclio.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/esundy.nuclio.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esundy.nuclio.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esundy.nuclio.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2145"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/esundy.nuclio.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2145\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2212,"href":"https:\/\/esundy.nuclio.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2145\/revisions\/2212"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esundy.nuclio.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/esundy.nuclio.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esundy.nuclio.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esundy.nuclio.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}