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THE same “peculiar appearance in the western sky” as that described by your correspondent, “J. W. B.,” was observed here by me on the same evening, April 6. At 7h. om. G.M.T., or fifteen minutes after sunset, I noticed a bright, golden-coloured column of light, well defined, about 4° in length and slightly more than 1° in width, and inclined towards the south. “J. W. B.” says it “rose vertically from near the horizon” at his station, Bath. Here it was decidedly inclined to an angle of about 15° towards the south. At 7h. 20m. no traces of it were visible. I have not seen any similar appearance since.
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ROBINSON, W. The Zodiacal Light(?). Nature 27, 605 (1883). https://doi.org/10.1038/027605c0
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