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THE RECENT SOLAR ECLIPSE.—M. Tisserand furnishes a few details on the results obtained by the Russian astronomers during the eclipse of August last, which were communicated to him through M. Backlund, Director of the Observatory of Pulkowa. M. Backlund's station was situated in Novaya Zemlya, where he landed three weeks before the day of the eclipse. During this period the sky remained constantly cloudy, the temperature varying from 0° to 3° C. During some occasionally bright moments altitudes of the sun were obtained to check their chronometers and determine their rates. M. Galitzine made a series of magnetic observations. At four o'clock on the morning of the eclipse the sky was still overcast, but the weather cleared up somewhat, and the observers were able to observe the four contacts under good conditions. Clouds, however, were not entirely absent; but successful observations and photographs of the corona were taken.
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Our Astronomical Column. Nature 54, 487 (1896). https://doi.org/10.1038/054487a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/054487a0