Word: coronas
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Professor King went on to describe the corona, the particular phenomenon of the eclipse which the University Observatory is concentrating...
...When the moon completely covers the sun, at the height of the eclipse" he said, "there will still be rays shooting out around the edges of the moon, which are called the corona. The corona has approximately the same total light as that of the full moon. It is made up probably of great tongues of flame which shoot thousands of miles out into space, and are reflected by something in the air, the nature of which has not yet been determined...
...problem is to study the total brightness of the corona. For this purpose we have four photometer, cameras, consisting of a box with a plate at one end and a pinhole at the other...
...last total eclipse occurred in Massachusetts over 100 years ago. In 1806 Nathaniel Bowditch, a prominent Massachusetts citizen of that day, observed a total eclipse from Salem, and remarked especially on the corona, though he did not call it by that name...
...Auburn and Hudson (N.Y.), New Bedford (Mass.); while Syracuse (N.Y.), Springfield (Mass.) and Providence (R.I.) will be a mile or two outside of the totality band of the eclipse. The duration of the total eclipse will be about two minutes, during which observatories will photograph the sun's corona and the moon. The hour of the phenomenon will be between 9 a.m. and 9:30 a.m., Eastern Standard Time...