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ECLIPSE NEGATIVES.—In order to minimise the risk in returning the eclipse negatives to England from the Eclipse Station at Viziadrug, they were divided into three batches, a complete set being made up in each batch by positives from the other negatives. Two of these sets have already arrived safely in England, and they testify to the clearness of the atmosphere during totality. The smallness of the prominences is very noticeable, both in hydrogen and K (calcium) radiations, a fact which was observed at South Kensington in Ha light on the day of the eclipse. Another conspicuous feature is the intense brightness of some of the coronal streamers at their base. The negatives of the corona also verify the reports from the visual observations, which stated that the general form was like those of 1886 and 1896. The resemblance to the latter is very striking, especially when we remember that it was the north point of the axis which was presented to us at that eclipse; whilst in the last eclipse in January, the south point of the axis is inclined towards us.
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Our Astronomical Column. Nature 57, 419 (1898). https://doi.org/10.1038/057419a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/057419a0