# The Eclipse Express

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- Book: [The Eclipse Express](https://www.bookquiver.com/vargo-statten/the-eclipse-express) ([The Eclipse Express.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/vargo-statten/the-eclipse-express.md))
- Authors: [Vargo Statten](https://www.bookquiver.com/vargo-statten)
- Publisher: gateway
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-14-7321-009-7
- Published: 2015-09-30
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: E-book

## Description

Herbert Broadbent - 'Bart' to his colleagues of the Astronomical Photographic Division - frowned at the cryptic official radio message which had just been sent to him. It said briefly: Prepare for departure to Ceylon on February 26 to photograph total solar eclipse. Dr Murchinson expedition. Solar Photographs Division. 'There are times,' he commented, 'when I get heartily tired of tearing about the world just on the spec of photographing something which never lasts more than five minutes at most!'