Polarisation of Light from the Sky during the Solar Eclipse of January 24

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Feb 1925

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1925natur.115..260t&link_type=abstract

Nature, Volume 115, Issue 2886, pp. 260-261 (1925).

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DURING the total eclipse on January 24, I was at New Haven, Connecticut, and thus very close to the middle line of the track of totality. For a portion of the period of totality I made a somewhat hasty survey of the state of polarisation of the light scattered by the sky, using for the purpose a Savart plate and Nicol prism. I was only able to cover the eastern sky from the zenith to the horizon stretching from north through east to south, and I was unfortunately not able to determine the plane of polarisation of the light scattered from the various parts of the sky. What I was able to note, however, with certainty was that there was no marked variation in the percentage of polarisation as one explored the eastward half of the sky-that is, there was no trace of the familiar maximum noted when the sun is not in eclipse.

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