Publications ..., Issue 1; Issue 1889Zalinger printing Company, 1889 - 12 pages |
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18 feet bands appeared Bardou glass Bardou telescope base and meridian Brashear Busch C. W. Langton camp CHAMBERLIN chro chronograph watch chronometer clouds compass needle computed corner of section coronal filaments crescent cross-piece darkness increased days previous December 30 DENVER diameters Direction of bands Direction of motion E. M. Van Harlingen eighteen feet long entire corona Ephemeris errors fourth contact HANS BUSCH inches INNER CORONA laid large Gurley transit laths latitude Lick Observatory light spaces LODTMANN longitude lunar mountains M. A. Shepard magnifying power Maxson observed minute before totality MISS LILLIE GERMAIN Monte Diablo base nometer noon signals north pole outer corona Pacific Standard position angle Prof protuberance sage brush SECOND CONTACT seemed to increase seen shade glass shadow shadow-bands sketch SOLAR ECLIPSE south pole split-seconds watch sun's disc sun's limb surveyor third contact ticks time-pieces UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN velocity W. E. Bowen Waltham white cloth Winnemucca
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Page 10 - The bands appeared about a minute before totality, coming in parallel rows separated by light spaces. Each shadow was a continuous straight black streak about one inch in width, and was not composed of separate patches. The light spaces between them were also an inch wide...
Page 11 - The bands were seen by him about one minute before totality, and seemed to increase in blackness and velocity as darkness increased.
Page 2 - We started at the stake marking the common corner of sections 19, 20, 29 and 30 of T. 36 N., R. 38 E. of Monte Diablo base and meridian. Thence we ran N. 84° 20