The Inner Solar Corona during June 1959

Abstract

STUDY of the solar occultation of the Taurus A radio source has yielded new information concerning the structure of the solar corona at large distances¹; however, the interpretation of the observations is somewhat hampered by lack of knowledge of the electron densities prevailing in the corona at the time of the occultation. Although observations made with the K-coronameter² at Climax, Colorado, do not extend out to the region of occultation, the measurements in Table 1 should give some indication of the conditions existing in the corona at the time of the recent passage.