Word: menzel
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Last week, Astrophysicist Donald Howard Menzel of Harvard announced construction plans for the world's highest astronomical station to house the first U. S. coronagraph. Site of the new observatory is Climax, Colo., a hamlet of 1,500 souls, perched 11,300 feet high on a pass of the Great Divide. Chief advantage of Climax is a daily cloudburst, which lasts about an hour, washes the sky an intense blue, clear as any in the Western Hemisphere. No drifting motes of dust can settle on the coronagraph lens to mar the view...
Although the origin of the light in the corona is unknown, Professor Menzel said that there is a direct relation between great upheavals in the sun's corona and the occurrence of magnetic storms on earth...
...studies of the solar corona will have an immediate practical importance for the forecasting of such widespread electrical storms as that which crippled the world's communication services on Easter Sunday, according to Donald B. Menzel, professor of Astrophysics...
Located at an altitude of 11,318 feet in the Colorado Rockies, the observatory will afford the most ideal conditions for the coronagraph, which requires clear atmosphere, free from dust and other particles. Professor Menzel will act as director...