Illinois News Index

Wilmette Life (Wilmette, Illinois), 14 Feb 1935, p. 21

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Thuisday, Friday and Saturday eve-. nings, February 14, 15 and 16, in Fisk hall on the Evanston campus. The showing., is open to the public at a small admission fee. Tickets aeon sale at the univeçrsity. The film ýis a, part of th niver- sity's; programn of visiai education. The, picture, only rece ntly com pleted, is an astronomical'travelogue,, which takes, its audience on a "trip" through stellar space with stop overs at,the sun, moon, stars and planets.. Tbe heavenly bodies are presented on, the screen just as* theyr are seen through the great, telescopes ini the natioa's largest observatories. Filma froli Obcem.todie The photographic ,material for the film was obtained at-the Mount Wil- son, Yerkes, Lick., Lowell and Han- Yard observateries. Dr. Oliver J. Lee, professor of astronomy at Northwestern university, wbo served as scientific adviser for the film, will deliver a descriptive lecture as the ,film unfolds its story of Ôuter space. .The solar eclipse of August 31, 1932,' is shown with its climax in a.wonder- ful coronal display. A prominence on the sun is seen rising over 135,000 miles during four hours. A group of sunspots is watched as the spots undergo great changes during four days. Different levels of the sun's atmosphere are viewed by means of different light rays. ture camera and tne a'x-inch, tcie- scope of Mounit Wilson observatory, with a magic carpet' tour over much of the visible surface of the satellite This "tour" afforcis views of niountain ranges, rolling pflains, cdiffs, valleys, clefts. or cracks in the surface,. and other topographic forms.- The f ea- tures of the moon are seen as the*y have neyer befone been shown uinder any conditions. 'The picture cornes close to giving the senst-expenience of a visit to the moon.' As a climax to the picture, an illu- sionai journey is made into the depths of space among the exterior galaxies, or other uiilky ways, which lie prof usely strewn acréas millions of light years, to the photographic linit of the largest telescope. Mrs. Harold Schildberg, 312 Ster- ling road, Kenilwortb, returned. last ,.week front Mendota, Ill., where she went toattend the fifty-first wedding ann iversary. of ber parents. Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Bonnet, 157 Robsant place, I<enifiworth, entertain- ed their bridge club at dinner Tues- day. S17 - icli READING ROOM-1148 GCentalAvenu. opmn Diily (exceint Wedaday) ý9 A. M.- te 6 P. M.' W.dnd.ey 9 A. M. t. 7:.45 P. M. Ssturdey 9 A.- M. t.'9 P. M. thé Bible mnd WorkSà .ofMary fleketBdy, mmd il'o.*he utbwh.meà Christian Science Literature May b. ýremdp bmwed or purcoaed et th. Reading Rboi.. Taz pIJEIC.1 CDuEaLLY -iNvruD ro TO m NTmJ - .CHURCH SERVICES »M VIO? r *..REDIO 1m* Customiers of Wilmette Battery and, cold arouna the sun. Th e motion ot Plu- to, the recently identified outer planet of the solar systêm, from january 23j to Januany 29, 1930, is presented from the discovery photoiraphs, showing the change in its psition which ne-L I i i = E i CAnnou.ncing that WILMETTE -DATTERY &, ELECTRIC SERVICE' 740 Tw.If*mStreet Wl'-.", now Offer theiÎr ciastomers ond other SHELL.PRODucTrs

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