Page 2 - The Michigan Daily - Sunday, June 10, 1984 v Z Ma ast[ foll 2,0 see. T per nar Bec mat The sect in e 0 cen M voy met WA 4: Wes we zon( mor 11 Mos our org: trip pate Nav wal mat the, E clou for: Gre Local eclipse watchers go south TUESDAY, May 29, 11:00 a.m. - We discover that west limb as totality ends. During this annular eclip- it is impossible to find a restaurant in Greensboro se, however, a "diamond necklace" effect was expec- Daily staff writer Laurie Ochnser travelled to that does not serve biscuits. There are even "Biscuit ted. Since the moon would be entirely silohouetted rtin, Ga. last month with a group of amateur ville" restaurants, exactly like McDonald's in every against the sun, Bailey's Beads could appear all ronomers to see the rare solar eclipse. What respect except the menu - nothing but biscuits. around the circumference of the moon during the lows is the tale of her 40-member group's 1: 30 P.M. -- We pass a giant, water-tower-size peak of the eclipse. 00 mile road trip and what they were able to statue of a peach complete with stem and two leaves. WEDNESDAY, May 30 6:00 am. - The big There is even an official freeway exit for it: "To view meeting. Someone calls the local Weather Bureau peach, take Exit 90" and a local airport to try to get recent weather infor- 4:00 P.M. -- The group moves into a motel in mation. Atlanta seems the safest bet, but many people By LAURIE OCHNSER Greenville very near the centerline of the eclipse want to wait a couple of hours to see how the clouds he eclipse was to be virtually a total eclipse - 99.7 path. We catch sight of telescope-laden amateurs move. cent of the sun was to be covered - along a from other parts of the country moving into adjacent 6:40 A.M. - Two car-loads decide to leave for row stretch of the southeastern United States. rooms. Atlanta. Most people decide to wait awhile longer. ause it was so close to a total eclipse we expected The most interesting thing on TV for us continues to Somebody suggests sacrificing a virgin to the Weather ny of the effects that occur during a total eclipse. be the Weather Channel. Right now there is a double Gods. temperature drops 10-15 degrees, birds and in- layer of cloud cover - a high layer of cirrus clduds 8:30 a.m. - We meet again to decide about moving. is become quiet, and a sunset forms on the horizon and a low layer of cumulus clouds. No one is sure yet There has been no new weather information since the very direction, howit willlook tomorrow, last meeting. The cloud band predicted earlier is ur group chose Greensboro, N.C. as a point on the 11:30 P.M. - Reports indicate that the cloud cover starting to move through. terline where we would observe the eclipse. might not break before morning. We decide to hold a There is a group to small lakes west of us that ONDAY, MAY 28, 8:40 a.m. - Our four-car con- meeting at 6:00 a.m. tomorrow to decide whether or might produce clouds, right on the Georgia herder finally gets on the road. Our fellow travellers are not to move. It looks as though Atlanta, Ga., will be We decide to drive across the Georgia bhrder and try nbers of the Warren Astronomical Society. The clear, but we are reluctant to move there. The farther to find a site as far east as possible. No one has S is one of the most active clubs in the country. west along the eclipse path one goes, the smaller the Geological Survey maps of the area that we're :00 P.M. -Five dollars in tolls later, we are on the percentage of the sun that is covered gets. There moving into, and there isn't time to find any before st Virginia turnpike. The country is beautiful, but aren't likely to be any of Bailey's Beads visible from the eclipse. keep hitting construction areas and blasting Atlanta. The moon will be completely ringed by 10:40 a.m.-By putting together Sky & Telescope, es. It's still as cloudy and overcast as it was in the sunlight, and its size will be just slightly too small to U.S. Naval Observatory and highway maps, we find rning, raining off and on. ' produce beads. The opportunity to see Bailey's Beads an exit close to the centerline - the exit for Lavonia, :30 P.M. - At last! We arrive in Greensboro. is what brought most of the people along on this trip, Ga. By luck we find a small fabrication plant that st of the group is already here, in their rooms or in and missing them would be a big disappointment. allows us to set up on their property. We are out in the "leader" Dave Harrington's room. Harrington Because of the special geometry of this eclipse it country, a mile-and-a-half from the freeway and (as anized and made elaborate preparations for this was expected that a good number of Bailey's Beads near as anyone can tell) only half a mile from the producing sheets of calculations on the exact would be visible. Bailey's Beads are glints of sunlight exact center of the eclipse path. h of the eclipse because he didn't find the U.S. that shine through lunar valleys and between high 11:00 A.M. - First contact! Excitement is starting al Observatory's figures accurate enough. One lunar mountains during an eclipse. The effect is very to build. A forest of telescopes nas risen, ana a group 1 of his room is covered with Geological Survey similar to that in photographs of sunset seen through of local amateur astronomers has set up with us. One ps of Virginia and North and South Carolina, with a valley or between mountains here on Earth, where of them stopped at a nearby drugstore to buy film on eclipse path carefully plotted on them. the sun's rays seem to divide and stretch out in all the way, and said that he was told there that there is ventually everyone drifts to their rooms. The directions. a group of people from Connecticut set up 3/4 d cover here in Greensboro is expected to remain During a total eclipse a "diamond ring" effect is of- of a mile on the other side of the freeway. They are several days, and we decide to move tomorrow to ten visible. One bright bead appears on the east limb sure that they are on the centerline, and that we are enville, S. Carolina. of the moon as totality begins, and another on the wrong. We're sure that we're right. If the moon is ex- See LOCAL, Page 4 a Demonstrators protest Reagan policies (Continued from Page 1; been some "argument," although that was normal because "we are not, and never will be, a yes-man's club." The Soviet Union said the show of unity was "designed to conceal acute differences over economic matters, the differences which tear the capitalist worldasunder. "The seven did not manage to over- come their differences, particularly over such major matters as exorbitan- tly high U.S. interest rates and the huge budget deficit of the United States," the official news agency Tass said. THE FINAL DAY of the three-day summit drew an estimated 200,000 anti- nuclear protesters to the streets of Lon- don. Police arrested more than 190 protesters who sat down in the middle of several main central London streets, severely disrupting traffic. The protest centered on the NATO decision to deploy 572 American-built Pershing 2 and cruise missiles in Western Europe beginning last Decem- ber. It was that deployment which prompted the Soviet Union to abandon the Geneva nuclear arms reduction talks with the United States. Demonstrators handed out leaflets bearing the polite message: "Dear President Reagan. Please take your missiles with you when you go." MASKED IN the communique were vocal protests by European officials over high U.S. interest rates and the claim by Treasury Secretary Donald Regan that there is no direct link bet- ween the rates and heavy U.S. budget deficits. Dropped from a preliminary version of the communique without explanation was a section which said the leaders welcomed an expected congressional "downpayment" on reducing budget deficits, and citing Reagan's "deter- mination" to continue this course by cutting government spending. The summit concluded formally with an elaborate black-tie banquet at Buckingham Palace, given for the world leaders by Queen Elizabeth II. After he meets with U.S. Embassy personnel today, Reagan is to return to Washington at the end of a 10-day European trip that also took him to Ireland, the land of his ancestors, and to Normandy, France, for ceremonies marking the 40th anniversary of the Allied D-day invasion of Nazi-occupied France in World War II. S Thatcher ... hosts economic summit HAPPENINGS Cinema Guild-Kiss Me Kate, 7:30 & 9:30 p.m., Intensive Care, call 763-1400. Sunday Lorch. Computing Center-lecture, "Intro to Textform," CFT-Lenny, 7:30 p.m.; Cabaret, 9:30 p.m., 3:30 p.m., 64Bus. Ad. Michigan. Performance Network-meeting and play Museum of Art-Art Break, "Trends and WCBN-Panel Discussion on black-white relations, Wasingtfor medieval festival, 7:30 p.m., 408 W. Traditions in Japanese Art," 2 p.m. 3 p.m., 88.3 FM. 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