Computer Science
Scientific paper
Nov 1870
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1870natur...3....7s&link_type=abstract
Nature, Volume 3, Issue 53, pp. 7 (1870).
Computer Science
Scientific paper
AN aurora borealis was visible at this place on the evening of the 25th inst., between the hours of 7 and 8.30 P.M. A beautiful crimson glow was first observed towards the north-east, veiling, but not hiding, the larger stars, and the Pleiades had the appearance of a wedge of pale yellow mist behind the veil. On the horizon, looking due north, was a semicircular luminous space of clear pale light, of the colour of eastern sky just before dawn, and from this there darted at intervals over the crimson glow long slender rays of yellowish light, giving an exceedingly beautiful appearance to the phenomenon. Clouds, which had been hanging about during the day, gathered over the scene towards 9 o'clock, and when they afterwards dispersed before midnight, the glow, though still perceptible, was fading away. A falling star was observed at about eight, but considerably to the south of the aurora. There had been an aurora observed on the preceding evening, but of a less striking character. The weather has been for the last ten days extremely unsettled, sirocco (S.E.) winds prevailing, and an unusual rainfall the result, accompanied sometimes by hail, and by thunder and lightning. But clear bright days occur in the intervals of these storms, when the sky is of an intense blue, against which beautiful forms of cloud mass themselves by degrees as the day goes on, and become at length the subjects of those gorgeous atmospheric effects which make the autumnal sunsets of the bay of Fiume rivals of those of Rome.
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