Physics
Scientific paper
Dec 1884
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1884natur..31..102l&link_type=abstract
Nature, Volume 31, Issue 788, pp. 102 (1884).
Physics
Scientific paper
AFTER watching for some time this evening a lovely twilight in the west, which though bright and luminous was not remarkable for strong colour, I turned toward the south-east, when the moon, now well up, was shining through detached fleecy clouds, and was surprised to see about her a rosy-coloured glow, very like that so often seen about the sun; the nearer clouds, though very high, telling as a cold almost greenish grey upon it. This glow, of course, was much lower in tone than that about the sun, but both in character and extent just like it, and quite distinct, and broader than those prismatic hues often seen about the moon, and called by sailors ``cock's eyes'' or peacock'seyes. This was at 4.45 p.m., and as the twilight faded the glow disappeared, from which I infer that it was caused by vapour lying high enough in the south-east to catch some of the very last rays of the sun, but too far east to give a glow in the west.
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