Word: coronas
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...undergraduate at the University, W. M. Powell '26, and not E. R. Hewett, Princeton '89 as previously announced, took the first colored photograph in history of the sun's corona during a total eclipse. This face hitherto generally unknown was discovered yesterday by the Crimson...
Powell, moreover, took six successful photographs, four of the corona, and two of the sky, in order to bring out the depth of color apparent at the height of the eclipse. Mr. Hewitt, on the other hand, apparently took only one. He used the same process as that adopted by the Princeton man, the Lumiere super-sensitized plate, but adapted it to eclipse photography after careful research work...
...That-according to reports based on the first photographs developed-there was a considerable number of prominences, or projections of the Sun's corona. This was unexpected, since the prominences are believed to be connected with sunspot activity, which at present is small...
Leaving Cambridge at 5 o'clock sleepy and hungry was a hardship they forgot when they saw the flashes, the corona, the colorful shadows flitting across the snow, and the brief appearance of the stars. The returned pilgrims were inclined to shout "sour grapes" at the cynical comments of those who had remained at home...
Professor Shapley concluded by saying, "Of course we cannot tell for several weeks just what scientific discoveries will have been added to our knowledge of the sun and its eclipses. We hope, however, that our special study of the corona, conducted under very favorable conditions, will yield interesting results...