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UP to the year 1868 those rose coloured appendages round the solar limb, the prominences, could, only be observed at the times of total eclipses of the sun. The ingenious method for watching “these phenomena any tune when the sun shines we owe to the labours of Lockyer and Janssen, and the striking of a medal by the French Government in honour of this important solar physical advance properly noted an epoch in this branch of astronomy.
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Publications of the Yerkes Observatory, vol. iii. part i.; also the Astropihysical Journal, vol. xix., No. 1, p. 41.
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LOCKYER, W. A New Epoch in Solar Physics . Nature 69, 608–612 (1904). https://doi.org/10.1038/069608a0
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