Jul 1884
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Nature, Volume 30, Issue 768, pp. 268 (1884).
Physics
Scientific paper
As we appear to be having a return of the gorgeous sunset phenomena with which we were favoured towards the end of last year, a brief mention of two of the most brilliant displays that I have recently had the good fortune to observe may be of sufficient interest to place upon record in the pages of NATURE, The ``after-glow,'' though very brilliant, has not of course attracted the attention it would have done, on account of the twilight; if it had not been for that circumstance, I think the recent displays of the phenomena would have been quite as gorgeous as those of last year. It would certainly have been so in the case of the ``after-glow'' on June 22; the ``glow'' on that evening at nine o'clock reached an altitude of 45°, and extended from the north to the west-north-west point of the horizon. For an altitude of about 20° the glow was of a beautiful crimson tint; above that altitude it was of a pale pink fading away gradually towards the edge to a pale orange. On that evening the reddish glow was not confined to that part of the horizon where the sun had gone down, but extended over the entire sky from the west to the east, the whole celestial vault, which was quite free from clouds, appearing to be slightly tinged with red. So conspicuous was this redness of the sky that a lady friend remarked-before her attention had been called to it-``How red all the sky is.''
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