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A LARGE SOLAR PROMINENCE.—An eruptive prominnce of exceptional altitude was photographed by Mr. Evershed at Srinagar, Kashmir, on May 26, 1916. Photographs were obtained at intervals from near the beginning of the outburst until the final fragments had risen to a height of a little more than a semi-diameter from the sun's limb. The velocity away from the sun was 190 km. per sec., and faint extensions could be traced at 18' from the limb, representing a height of close upon half a million miles. This would appear to be the highest prominence which has yet been recorded. (The Observatory, vol. xxxix., P. 358.)
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Our Astronomical Column . Nature 97, 507 (1916). https://doi.org/10.1038/097507a0
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