Peck, William G. (William Guy), 1820-1892 · New York, Chicago, A. S. Barnes & company · leaf 176
s, which are frequently inclined and curi-ously bent, are irregularly distributed around the sun ; insome places they are few in number and comparativelyshort, and again in other places they are very numerous,and extend outward to enormous distances, so that the visi-ble outline of the corona is… … Fig. 77. Corona seen in 1871. The general appearance of the corona is never the sameat two different eclipses, and even at the same eclipseobservers differ in their account of its outline, especially iftheir observations are made at different stations. Some-times the radial wings are seen to extend…
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