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A study of the sky (1896)

Howe, Herbert A. (Herbert Alonzo), 1858-1926 · Meadville, Penna., Flood and Vincent · leaf 197

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work over the entire photosphere, as shown inFig. 94. The sensitive plates bear mute witness to thephotospheric tumults. When the moon causes a total eclipse of the sun by The chromo.coming between that luminary and the earth, it covers sphere-up the dazzling photosphere, and permits less brilliant… … Fig. 94.—Facul^e. miles, and it, like the photosphere, is agitated by tremen-dous forces.Prominences. Rising from it are beautiful scarlet forms of various shapes, which have been named protuberances, orprominences. Some of them look like huge trees, withtrunks thousands of miles in diameter, and…

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