New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-08-06
THE ECLIPSE IN NETWORK.

the dark body Of the moon was suddenly surrounded
| and relative magnitude to that which painters draw
around the heads OF saints and which by the French
designated arecle. Payia contains many thousand
Inhabitants, the majority part OF whom we're at this
early walking about the streets ana squares or look
pLepomeDou and when total observation took place
which in'antdneous. there was universal shout
the moment my attention from the object with
which was immediately occupied"
BAILLY's BEADS
An interesting phenon enon visible IN the telescope Is
the appearance called Baillys Beads At the instant
when the disk Is nearly covered by tho moon, when the
thin line OF light is on the point OF disappearing II some
times breaks up fragments from the irregularities OF
tho moons surface the projection OF lunar mountains
cutting OF the light before II disappears nj other points
The same phenomenon may be observed also on the hs
appearance OF the from behind the moons disk
But beautiful this phenomenon Is Of lseh II Is now
almost overlooked from occurring just at the moment
OF other phenomena more interesting and Important
TIE CORONA.
In l7O at Montpelier the French astronomers saw the
noon whcn the sun was entirely hid, surrounded by
very white light, which formed sort OF corona or crown
around ITS disk about three minutes OF arc In Dreadful
or one tenth the moons apparent diameter WITHIN
these limits the light preserved uniform Intensity ana
beyopd t. 10 tho extent Of about four degrees al around
the moon tho light was seen gradually diminishing
till u was finally lost In the obscurty OF the hrhamen
During the eclipse Of l75 at London some SECONDS
before the sun was completely hid, HALEY saw umin
GUS ring around MOON the breadth OF which was one
twelfth, or perhaps a TENTH Of her diameter. TO
French who TO London for the purpose OIL
observing this eclipse, the corona or ring AROUND 'o
moon appeared OF silver color. IL was more luminous
near the borders OF the m0on and diminished graauay
in intensity up TO It's exterior circumference ms CIT
cumference although faint, very well DENIED Inc
corona did appear OF equal intensity on every me
frotp ia
were observed In It. which gave II SIN more
the appearance Of the glory around the headS vi
salnts This observer also saw at the lnnermo't
edge OF the corona. brilliant circle OF red when Il
probably the earliest notice OF what we now can tue ieu
protuberances or projections In 1884, Marald observed
for the first time that the luminous corona was not
conccntrc with the moon. These observations proved
the corona 20 be cOncentrc with the sun instead OF Win
the moon and that II Is q phenomenon closely connected
with the suns physical constitution.
| TIE RosE.coLoRED PRoTUBERASCEs.
The red protuberances first seen by VaSseniu at
Goteuburg May g. 1873. and they have been observed
a every total solar eclipse since that time These rose
colored promnences Of Irregular form, sometimes
rising nearly high as the corona itself These phe'
| nomena were yariousy seen and described In tho
eolipses OF 1878 and 1906 and In iS2 Arago saw the
corona both with his telescope and the naked eye In
the Sandwich Islands $780, and on the coasts OF swedeh
and Norway In 1851 these curious appearances were sun
the objects of study II was not until the eclipse OF 1850
that IL was satisfactorily demonstrated that they be-
onood 10 the sun and that the nterposon Of the moon
merely enabled us TO SEQ them by cutting of the direct
rays OF the sun.
| THE GREAT ECLIPSE OF 1853
This was nearly all that was certainly known OF the
nature OF OF the red flames up 10 last year.
when the occurrence Of total eclipse India on August
IT, afforded the opportunity for further observations and
with Instruments better adapted for the purpose II was
known that they Of immense size, but II was not
known whether they gaseous or composed OF sond
particles whether they shone by their own light or by
| that Of the sun, aud nothing was known OF their
chemical constitution. In order TO obtain better
knowledge OF the peranence OF these protuberances
places Of observation Systematically selected along
the path OF the shadow, and the was photographed
at each point In order that by the comparison Oh the
photographs taken thus In succession the changes u
any, might be made known The attention OF observers
was also called 10 polarization OF the corona by the
Nicols prism 10 ascertain its constitution Thus by the
use of the photograph the poarng apparatus and the
neither Of which had before been used In
connection with this particular point OF investigation
under favorable circumstances II at ALL was hoped that
much would be learned Much learned, but not All
and tomorrow in Alaska Iowa, illinois, and KENTUCKY
parties OF astronomical Observers sent by the Govern
ment by colleges and observatores. and by private In
dIyduas will be engaged in continuing these inveetga
tons with similar or possible, improved instruments
What WAS learned from tho eclipse OF last yearT Sew
erai of the red promnences were visible. and photo
graphed at different stations At Guntoor' Major Ten
nant photographed one which from Its size and shape
was called the Great Horn. Mr.. De La Rue, whose pho
oaphs of the In 1850 were unequaled states that
the copies which he had received were not sufficiently
distinct to enable him TO ascertain wheIher tnere
| chanoe I'm the ASPECT Of the Great Horn during MAJ
observations but that Is very probable that
there was for that prominence as depicted by different
observers along the line of totay presented appearan
CO, warrantng the suspicion that the Great Horn was
undergoing rotation: and At later date be recognizes