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IN NATURE of August 31 there is a note headed, “A Rare Phenomenon,” from Magdeburg. Your correspondent, I think, evidently refers to what in India, or at any rate in Ceylon, is called “Buddhu's Rays,” an appearance in the sky very commonly observed here, and for which I have never heard any scientific explanation attempted. I regret to say that hitherto I have never taken any exact notes of the position of these rays. They generally occur, I think, when the sun is low, sometimes in the west at sunset, but also occasionally in the east. The appearance presented is that of alternate broad streaks of rose colour and blue radiating from one point on the horizon, and extending, I should say, for about thirty or forty degrees. I will, whenever I see them in future, take exact notes of their position, &c. At present I can only say that I certainly think that dust in the atmosphere can take no part in their production.
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MOSS, B. [Letters to Editors]. Nature 5, 203 (1872). https://doi.org/10.1038/005203b0
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