Glass diapositive of a drawing showing the solar corona at the eclipse seen from Sumatra
- artist:
- William Henry Wesley
Glass diapositive in passe-partout frame [X14] of a drawing by Mr Wesley [plate 12] showing the solar corona as seen from Sumatra at the solar eclipse of May 18th, 1901.
Photograph of an original drawing, showing the corona around the Sun during a solar eclipse. The pearly and ghostly light is only seen during the brief period of totality when the Moon blocks the dazzlingly bright surface of the Sun. The corona forms the outer and very tenuous atmosphere of the Sun, an envelope of highly ionised gas, superheated to over a million degrees centigrade. This drawing, made by W.H. Wesley, shows the appearance of the corona during the solar eclipse of 18th May 1898 as viewed from Sumatra in Indonesia.
Details
- Category:
- Astronomy
- Object Number:
- 1999-918
- Measurements:
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overall: 3 x 254 x 254 mm
- type:
- black-and-white transparencies, pictorial drawings, sun, solar eclipes, solar corona, solar prominences and solar chromosphere
- credit:
- Science Museum (Great Britain)
