Sun-brightness, if the reflecting particles are of gross magnitude, like those composing the surface of the Moon, but less transmissible than Sunbrightness, on the other hand, if the reflecting particles are minute like the molecules of gases. OBSERVATIONS... Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections - Page 341908 - 8 pagesFull view - About this book
| Astronomical Society of the Pacific - 1907 - 686 pages
...but the sensitiveness employed was regarded as good for a temporary installation. THE OBSERVATIONS. The approach of totality was uncommonly exciting on...occasion. Early in the morning the sky was overcast with thin high clouds, but these gradually grew thinner, so that after 9 AM the prospects indicated a streaky... | |
| Astronomical Society of the Pacific - 1908 - 370 pages
...but the sensitiveness employed was regarded as good for a temporary installation. THE OBSERVATIONS. The approach of totality was uncommonly exciting on...occasion. Early in the morning the sky was overcast with thin high clouds, but these gradually grew thinner, so that after 9 AM the prospects indicated a streaky... | |
| Smithsonian Institution. Board of Regents - 1909 - 942 pages
...good for a temporary installation. ANNUAL REPOBT SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, 1908. The observations. — The approach of totality was uncommonly exciting on...occasion. Early in the morning the sky was overcast with thin high clouds, but these gradually grew thinner, so that after 0 am the prospects indicated a streaky... | |
| Smithsonian Institution. Board of Regents - 1909 - 952 pages
...installation. ANNUAL REPORT SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, 1908. The observations. — The approach of totality wus uncommonly exciting on this occasion. Early in the morning the sky was overcast with thin high clouds, but these gradually grew thinner, so that after 9 am the prospects indicated a .streaky... | |
| Lick Observatory - 1910 - 258 pages
...brightness of the solar corona, if we imagine it to be caused merely by the reflection of ordinary Sun-rays, would be more transmissible to the asphaltum screen...occasion. Early in the morning the sky was overcast with thin high clouds, but these gradually grew thinner so that after 9 am the prospects indicated a streaky... | |
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