Some Highlights of the Lick Observatory Solar Eclipse Expeditions
Abstract
Over the four decades from January 1889 to August 1932 15 different expeditions were sent out by the Lick Observatory with the primary mission of observing the Sun during the brief moments of a total solar eclipse. During this same interval, considerable advances were made in our understanding of the Sun, but particularly the photosphere and the corona, and a significant portion of this new knowledge came from the investigations that could only be made at the time of a total solar eclipse.
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Highlighting the History of Astronomy in the Asia-Pacific Region
- Pub Date:
- 2011
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- 2011ASSP...23..243P
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- Physics