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ON Wednesday evening, January 4th, while the frost still lasted, there appeared, about 7.25 P.M., two brilliant halos, of which a sketch is forwarded. Neither was perfect in outline. The greater spread out literally from the smaller, and made a circuit of the heavens, so that if an observer stood with his back to the moon, there was seen facing him in the N. W. an inverted lunar rainbow—to all appearance. This enormous arc scarcely seemed a part of a circle on account of the great size: the zenith was about its centre. After meeting the smaller halo it was scarcely visible, but it produced would have passed through the moon's disc, At the point of intersection towards the east, a faint paraselene appeared.
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BARBER, S. Lunar Bows. Nature 3, 245 (1871). https://doi.org/10.1038/003245d0
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