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Stargazing: past and present (1878)

Lockyer, Norman, Sir, 1836-1920, Seabroke, G. M. (George Mitchell), 1848-1918 · London, Macmillan and co. · leaf 461

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ndeed, to consider some curiousobservations which are now capable of being madeevery day when anything like a sun-storm is going on,by means of the arrangement in which the spectroscopesimply deals with the light that comes from a smallportion of the sun instead of from all the sun. If wemake the… … Fig. 202.—Distortions of F line ou Sun. lines, which we have before shown to be straight, insteadof being so, appear contorted and twisted in all direc-tions. On the other hand, if we examine the chromo-sphere under the same conditions, Ave find the brightlines contorted in the same manner. The…

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