...the sun's limb ; then, simultaneously with the vanishing of the last scintilla of direct sunshine, ' all at once, as suddenly as a bursting rocket shoots out ' its stars, the whole field of view,' he relates, ' was filled 'with bright lines, more numerous than one could count. 'The phenomenon was...

...where the last ray was about to vanish, saw the ordinary solar spectrum gradually fade away; and " all at once, as suddenly as a bursting rocket shoots...whole field of view was filled with bright lines." His observation was confirmed by Pye, who was observing at the same station with an integrating spectroscope...

...happy moment, and saw this reversed, " flash " spectrum of bright lines. " All at once," he says, " as suddenly as a bursting rocket shoots out its stars,...bright lines more numerous than one could count. The duration of the bright lines was only about two seconds, and the layer of vapors must have been under...

...this happy moment, and saw this reversed, "flash" spectrum of bright lines. " All at once," he says, " as suddenly as a bursting rocket shoots out its stars,...bright lines more numerous than one could count. The duration of the bright lines was only about two seconds, and the layer of vapors must have been under...

...bright lines. " All at once," he says, " aa suddenly as a bursting rocket shoots out its stars, tb« whole field of view was filled with bright lines more numerous than one could count. The duration of the bright lines was only about two seconds, and the layer of vapors must have been under...

...solar crescent narrowed before the encroaching moon, " the dark lines of the spectrum," he tells us, " and the spectrum itself, gradually faded away, until...The phenomenon was so sudden, so unexpected, and so wonderful!}' beautiful, as to force an involuntary exclamation."4 Its duration was about two seconds,...

...second contact, when totality occurred, he saw the usual black line solar spectrum disappear when : "All at once, as suddenly as a bursting rocket .shoots...bright lines, more numerous than one could count." — Young. Therefore, Kirchhoff 's law was actually proven to act on the sun as well as in the same...

...of second contact. The thin solar crescent narrowed second by second ; at last it vanished ; then " all at once, as suddenly as a bursting rocket shoots out its stars," the ordinary Fraunhofer spectrum previously visible was replaced by a serried array of bright lines on...

...still visible, but at the exact moment when totality occurred, he saw the black lines disappear and "all at once, as suddenly as a bursting rocket shoots...its stars, the whole field of view was filled with more numerous bright lines than one could count."1 The Chromosphere and its Prominences. — A spectroscope...

...solar crescent grew thinner before the advancing body of the Moon : " the dark lines of the spectrum and the spectrum itself gradually faded away until,...was filled with bright lines, more numerous than one can count/' The existence of the reversing layer was long disputed, but it was confirmed during the...