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...lectures are: October 29, "The New Comets," by Dana K. Bailey; November 1, "Mystery of the Solar Corona," by Donald H. Menzel, associate professor of Astronomy; November 6, "In Between the Stars," by Bart J. Bok, assistant professor of Astronomy; and November 8, "Peculiar Variable Stars," by Dr. Luigi Jacchia...
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...
Coronagraph recordings may have great practical value. The magnetic storm which disrupted communications Easter Sunday was probably started, thinks Professor Menzel, when the earth coursed through the tail end of a corona streamer. Coronagraph experiments may help predict such storms in advance...
Also, said Dr. Menzel, "Coronal observations may furnish an index that statisticians can use, or perhaps misuse, in attempts to correlate solar activity with terrestrial affairs, such as the amount of ozone in the atmosphere, occurrence of aurorae, biological effects of radiation, meteorological phenomena, and perhaps some day, long-range weather forecasting...
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...