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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1889 Excerpt: ... characterised those of 1874, 1875, and 1878. Although very irregular in detail, it is approximately circular in form, and is entirely without that great difference between the polar and equatorial extensions which had been so striking in the three last eclipses. At the same time it shews none of that symmetry about a line not very far from the Sun's axis that had been more or less apparent in most previously photographed coronas, and especially in that of 1871. This absence of an axis of symmetry and of polar rifts is its most striking feature. There are groups of synclinal structure, but they are not of a very definite character, and are quite irregularly placed. The solar axis does not pass through the line of least extension, as is almost always the case. The only approach to an axis of symmetry seems to be about a line nearly at right angles with the Sun's axis. The orientation was, however, very carefully made, and in Dr. Schuster's opinion is not more than half a degree in error: it nearly agrees with that adopted by Professor Tacchini. "The rays are rather more frequently straight than curved, and there is only one instance of a ray completely curving over: this is in the south-east; it reaches a height of about 12' from the limb. Beneath it are two rays--the only ones shewing any traces of a branching structure. There are distinct rifts on the western side, reaching to the limb; but they are more filled up with coronal matter than those of 1871. The rays are in all directions, from radial to tangential, and there are several cases of rays crossing each other, but no clear case of a ray of double curvature. The lower details of the corona are less distinct than in 1871; but this may be due to the great density of the film near the limb, which i...
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