Glass diapositive of a drawing showing the solar corona at the eclipse seen from Tunisia

Made:
1905 in Sfase
artist:
William Henry Wesley

Glass diapositive in passe-partout frame [X14] of a drawing by Mr Wesley [plate 13] showing the solar corona as seen from Sfase, Tunisia at the solar eclipse of August 30th, 1905.

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 30th August 1905 as viewed from Sfase in Tunisia.

Details

Category:
Astronomy
Object Number:
1999-921
Materials:
glass, paper and complete
Measurements:
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)