May 1883
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1883natur..28q.104p&link_type=abstract
Nature, Volume 28, Issue 709, pp. 104 (1883).
Physics
Scientific paper
MAY not this be an auroral phenomenon, at times, at least, and hence the differences of opinion as to its nature? Reading Wilkes's ``Narrative of the U.S. Expedition,'' I find the following:-``On the 7th February (1840) the weather had become less boisterous, and having reached latitude 49° S., longitude 155°.23 E., the aurora Australis again appeared. It was first seen in the north, and gradually spread its coruscations over the whole heavens; the rays and beams of light radiating from nearly all points of the horizon to the zenith, when their distinctive outlines were lost in a bright glow of light, which was encircled by successive flashes, resembling those of heat lightning on a summer's night. These formed a luminous arc in the southern sky, about 20° in altitude, from the upper part of which rays were continually flashing towards the zenith. Light showers of rain finally shut it out from view.''
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