The Eclipse. TO TIHE EDITOR OF THE TLMES. Sir,-As we, a total of perhaps 20 visitors, seem to have been very fortunate as regards seeing the Eclipse, a brief record will, I hopc, be of interest. A point about 5o miles S.W. of Giggleswick had been selected. It was close to a country road leading to DVle House Farmii, which is about one mile farther N.W. We got frequent intermittent views of the sun up to about half an hour before totality, and then until about one hour after totality the view was continuously unobstructed. Tile niarked featture during totality, as seen from our position, was a verv brilliant ruby-colouretd flamie of light, slightly to the right of the top of the moon's, edge. lt seemed to persist in its full brilliance to the end of the totality, and must therefore have been due to a promin- ence on the sun's limb of extraordinary dimen- sions. In one respect we were unfortunate, hut (1o not kiow to what extent, as our film has not yel been developed. Having erected our telescope and cninera oni Tuesday evening, and having gone to DIale House Farm about a mile away, we hurried back on being warned that cowvs were in our field anid mighit in- vestigate. They liad done so, aind we fouid the apparatus Iying on the ground, telescope and camera being broken apart. 13y about' lo p.m. a repair htid beeni effected, anid the apparatus re-set. But somne unseen damage Seelms to have been (lone to the clockwork as it stopped ab)out mid-totaility, though stili wound up. TIme original idea of obtaining direct wireless records of time on the film could not be carri-d out, ats lioped-for suggestions as to to0w thlis could be effected (lid not arrive ami(l prevented others from being used, but it. is lholed that anti approximation to ai small fractionl ol a s-con(l will neverthicless have been obtained photographically. I have heard that astrononiers in Scanidinavia intended to obtain similar but better records. Anothier object, which wie lhope has been attained. is the pilotographling in a long-drawn- out forimi of thme irregularities on' the edge .dt the moon, ivhich shiould permit of these irregillarilties being measured withi great atccuiracy. A thiiril object, whlich was intet- fereld with by the damage, was to stop tibe moving tilUii aflter second(I contaLct, obtaini a stationary photograph of thie corona. and then re-start t ie. rn. The size of the image was about 2Ain. .Yours faithfuill- C. E. STROMEYEB. Tile Manchester Steani Users' Association 9, Mount-street, Albert-square, Manchester, Julne 30. THE ECLIPSE.