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The passage reads: "Our shadow-box takes up all our attention. There is a marvellous spectacle above, and, as the photographs afterwards revealed, a wonderful prominence-flame is poised a hundred thousand miles above the surface of the sun. We have no time to snatch a glance at it. We are conscious only of the weird half-light of the landscape and the hush of nature, broken by the calls of the observers, and beat of the metronome ticking out the 302 seconds of totality."

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The passage reads: "Our shadow-box takes up all our attention. There is a marvellous spectacle above, and, as the photographs afterwards revealed, a wonderful prominence-flame is poised a hundred thousand miles above the surface of the sun. We have no time to snatch a glance at it. We are conscious only of the weird half-light of the landscape and the hush of nature, broken by the calls of the observers, and beat of the metronome ticking out the 302 seconds of totality."
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Robert McNees (mcnees@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 06-Nov-2023 18:06:11 UTC Robert McNees
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The measurements were made by two teams during the total solar eclipse on May 29 of that year. Eddington led an expedition to Principe; Crommelin led an expedition to Sobral.
Eddington would later recount the five minutes of totality in one of his books. A copy is available here:
https://archive.org/details/spacetimegravita00eddirich/page/114/mode/2up?view=theater

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