Elementary astronomy; a beginner's text-book (1899)
Holden, Edward Singleton, 1846-1914 · New York, H. Holt and company · leaf 310
egins to wear a ruddy aspect. This grows more andmore pronounced, and gives to the adjacent country that weird effectwhich lends so much to the impressiveness of a total eclipse. The reason for the change of color is simple. The Suns atmos-phere absorbs a large proportion of the bluer rays, and as… … Fig. 169.—The Solar Coronaat the Total Solar Eclipseof January, 1889, from Pho-tographs. 290 ASTRONOMY. than ordinary sunlight, as they are those which come from pointsnear the Suns limb, where they have to pass through the greatestthickness of the Suns atmosphere. The color of the light becomes…
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