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V. Remarks on the recent eclipse of the sun as observed in the united states

Author(s) -

Joseph Norman Lockyer

Publication year - 1870

Publication title -

proceedings of the royal society of london

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

eISSN - 2053-9126

pISSN - 0370-1662

DOI - 10.1098/rspl.1869.0044

Subject(s) - eclipse , solar eclipse , chromosphere , kindness , subject (documents) , corona (planetary geology) , history , astronomy , physics , political science , law , computer science , library science , astrobiology , venus , spectral line

By the kindness of Professors Winlock, Morton, and Newton, I have been favoured with photographs, and as yet unpublished accounts, of the results of the recent total eclipse of the sun observed in America. I am anxious, therefore, to take the opportunity afforded by the subject being under discussion, to lay a few remarks thus early before the Royal Society. The points which I hoped might be more especially elucidated by this eclipse were as follows:— 1. Is it possible to differentiate between the chromosphere and the corona ? 2. What is the real photographic evidence of the structure of the base of the chromosphere in reference to Mr. W. De La Rue's enlarged photographs of the eclipse of 1860 ?

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