Star-land; being talks with young people about the wonders of the heavens (1899)
Ball, Robert Stawell, Sir, 1840- [from old catalog] · Boston and London, Ginn & company · leaf 56
. Trouvelot would gladly have taken longertime for his sketch of so unique a sight, but brevity wasimperative. He had already had experience of similareclipses, so that he was prepared at once to note whatought to be noted, and the picture we have shown isthe result. This was completed within less… … Fig. 19. —The Corona of the Sun, 1882 (by Schuster). I want you particularly to look at these long branchesor projections which we see surrounding the sun when 44 STAR-LAND. totally eclipsed. They shine with a pearly light, and,in fact, it is stated that even during the gloomiest por-tion of the…
Astronomy
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