Baily's Beads

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Nov 2000

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"Encyclopedia of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Edited by Paul Murdin, article 5118. Bristol: Institute of Physics Publishing, 2001

Astronomy and Astrophysics

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Sun, Solar Atmosphere

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Brilliant points of light seen at the edge of the Moon's disk during a total eclipse of the Sun, just at the onset and termination of totality. They are due to sunlight passing through valleys and indentations at the edge of the Moon's visible disk. The English astronomer Francis Baily (1774-1844) drew attention to the phenomenon during the solar eclipse of 1836....

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