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IT may be, I think, desirable to correct an error which has crept into all the accounts of the extraordinary transparency of the atmosphere observed here last week. It occurred on Sunday, the 8th, and not on Monday, the 9th inst. I can confirm the several details as to the objects visible to the unassisted eye. But in one respect this effect was surpassed on August 20, 1887, when the double flash of the Dunkirk light, distant from this place about forty-five miles, was visible for several hours. This light could not be seen here on the 8th inst.
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PARNELL, J. Transparency of the Atmosphere. Nature 38, 270 (1888). https://doi.org/10.1038/038270a0
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