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THE ZODIACAL LIGHT.—Mr. Denning writes us that displays of this light were surprisingly intense on the mornings of December 4 and 5. He has observed it on many hundreds of occasions, both at the morning and evening apparitions, but never remembers to have seen it more conspicuous. It stretched upwards from about E. by S., and its fainter limits were just traceable, to the stars Regulus and υ Leonis in the Sickle of Leo. It was best seen at about 5.40 a.m., and as Regulus passed the meridian at Bristol at 5.23 and 5.19 on the mornings mentioned, the light must have extended over a considerable arc.
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Our Astronomical Column . Nature 98, 277 (1916). https://doi.org/10.1038/098277a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/098277a0