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THE sun pillar described by your correspondents was very well seen from the railway between Netley (5.40) and Southampton (6 p.m.), and lasted, I think, more than half an hour. It was visible before and after sunset. The upper air at the time was remarkably calm; the morning had been foggy, and the morning of March 7 was also foggy on the ground. Observation of the upper clouds on the morning of the 6th, and at the time of the phenomenon, showed an extremely slow movement from the north-west, barely noticeable between telegraph wires overhead. At 9 a.m. on the 7th cirrus was moving very slowly from about north, and at noon from north-west.
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RUSSELL, R. Sun Pillars. Nature 65, 512 (1902). https://doi.org/10.1038/065512a0
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