| Dionysius Lardner - Astronomy - 1875 - 766 pages
...225°. ** Almost directly preceding, or at 270°, appeared a bluntly triangular pink body, suspended, as it were, in the corona. This was separated from...appearance of a large conical protuberance, whose base WHS hidden by some intervening soft and ill -defined substance, like the upper part of a conical mountain,... | |
| Sir Norman Lockyer - Astronomy - 1876 - 392 pages
...thus been described by the Rev. WR Dawes : — " A bluntly triangular pink body [was seen] suspended, as it were, in the corona. This was separated from...protuberance, of vivid brightness and very deep tint, ?.rose to a height of perhaos 1$' when first seen, and increased in length to 2' or more, as the Moon's... | |
| George Frederick Chambers - Astronomy - 1877 - 968 pages
...225°. "Almost directly preceding, or at 270°, appeared a bluntly triangular pink body, suspended, as it were, in the corona. This was separated from...by some intervening soft and ill-defined substance, like the upper part of a conical mountain, the lower portion of which was obscured by clouds or thick... | |
| Sir Norman Lockyer - Astronomy - 1880 - 332 pages
...they were described by Mr. Dawes as follows :— "A bluntly triangular pink body was seen suspended, as it were, in the corona. This was separated from the Moon's edge when first seen, II and the separation increased as the Moon advanced. It had the appearance of a large conical protuberance,... | |
| George Frederick Chambers - Astronomical instruments - 1889 - 736 pages
...225°. " Almost directly preceding, or at 270°, appeared a bluntly triangular pink body, tuspemled, as it were, in the corona. This was separated from...by some intervening soft and ill-defined substance, like the upper part of a conical mountain, the lower portion of which was obscured by clouds or thick... | |
| Theosophy - 1891 - 1062 pages
...phenomenon was seen and noted down by Rev. WE Daves. " A bluntly triangular, pinky body (was seen) suspended as it were in the corona. This was separated from...conical protuberance, whose base was hidden by some soft and ill-defined substance ............ To the north of this appeared the most wonderful phenomenon... | |
| Royal Society of Edinburgh - Science - 1853 - 748 pages
...Ib., p. 67. ** Edin. New Phil. Journal, for October 1851, pp. 374, 375. VOL. XX. PART III. . 6 G rated from the moon's edge when first seen, and the separation increased as the moon advanced."* My own observations of the prominences are accordant with those which have now been stated. A little... | |
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