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The 1922 Solar Eclipse at Christmas Island: "Our Disappointment It Is Impossible to Describe" (2023)

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The 21 September 1922 total eclipse of the Sun offered the next opportunity to obtain the measurements of the deflection of starlight that could confirm Einstein's General Theory of Relativity and the results obtained during the 1919 eclipse. The Royal Observatory, Greenwich, mounted an expedition to Christmas Island, 350km off the coast of Java, whose work programme also included photographic photometry of southern stars. There they were joined in a spirit of 'friendly rivalry' by a Dutch-German group also planning similar deflection measurements. However, early on in the assembly of their telescope the British astronomers realised that the weather was going to cause trouble and that the meteorological records from the island were of limited value for astronomical purposes.

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Authors & Contributors
Scholz, Erhard
Simões, Ana I.
Carneiro, Ana
Diogo, Maria Paula
Durham, Ian T.
Goodstein, Judith R.
Journals
Journal for the History of Astronomy
Journal of Astronomical History and Heritage
European Physical Journal H
Notes and Records: The Royal Society Journal of the History of Science
Acta Baltica historiae et philosophiae scientiarum
Berichte zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte
Publishers
American Mathematical Society
Concepts
Relativity, general
Astronomy
Physics
Solar eclipse
Science and society
Astronomical observatories
People
Einstein, Albert
Eddington, Arthur Stanley
Broglie, Louis Victor Pierre Raymond de
Klein, Oskar Benjamin
Levi-Civita, Tullio
Morize, Henrique
Time Periods
20th century, early
19th century
Places
Brazil
Vietnam
Indochina
Portugal
Spain
South America
Institutions
Royal Observatory Greenwich
Observatório Nacional (Brazil)
National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution
University of Wisconsin at Madison
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