NO. 9 BRIGHTNESS OF LUNAR ECLIPSES FISHER I9 



c= 17.8 the contours of the maria, and certain craters, notably Aristarchus and 



ManiHus. 



Flammarion, Juvisy, France, (130); sky hazy; strong astronomical 



twilight, 

 a 7.6 b The half-eclipsed moon hard to see, with n. e. and opera-glass, on the 



field of the sky. 



Roulaud, Dragueville, France, (134) i sky and means not stated. 



The principal spots were visible. 



' Vereri, Bellevue, France, (136) ; sky and means not stated. 

 The shadow was entirely black. 



Szmft, Echo Mt., Cal., (135) ; cloudless sky. 

 • Aristarchus was on this occasion a very inconspicuous object, not 



noticeable unless looked for. 



1896 II 28; 0.870; Grade 2 



c Antarctica, S. Atlantic. 



Moller, Bothkamp, (138) ; sky not stated. 

 c = 2.4 6.0 cm. ; the smaller craters were visible after immersion only in the 



neighborhood of the shadow-edge, and no longer after they had pene- 

 trated deeper into the shadow. 



W. P (ruisf),lJcde, Belgium, (141); sky almost completely hidden. 

 c = 2.6 To "the n. e., the shadow which covered the moon was reddish, and 



grayer toward the center of the disk; in it one could distinguish the 



gray spots of the lunar seas as well as the brilliant crater Tycho. 



Dumenil, [Yebleron], (137) ; apparently a pretty good sky between 



clouds. 

 c^2.8 Marine glass, 5 cm.; the light rose-color which covered 8/10 of the 



surface was admirably transparent. In it there were perceived all the 



details; continents and mountains, very blue; the seas, a little more 



gray. 



Taylor, S. Kensington, Engl., (140). 

 c = 3.0 2 inch ; the principal lunar seas and formations were easily seen 



through the red part of the shadow, which was redder to the n. e. 



than in a 2 inch o. g. 



Roberts, Aberdeen, Scotland, (139) ; sky not stated, 

 c ^ 3.2 The maria could be distinctly traced with the n. e. 



1898 I 7; 0.157; Grade i 



c Siberia, near Bering's Str., Alaska. 



Sfuyraert, Brussels, Ci45) ! excellent conditions. 

 c=i.i 38 cm.; the shadow was throughout of a uniform slate gray. For 



a while after beginning, and again before ending, the brilliant ray 



extending S. E. from Tycho was visible in the, shadow. Previous to 



the middle of the eclipse the immersed limb was seen only with 



difficulty. 



Chevrcmont, Congis, France, (14^); during the eclipse the sky was 



perfectly limpid. 

 c^i.i 6.0 cm.; about mid-eclipse the shadow is so dense that the details of 



the surface disappear entirely; but, a curious fact, the bright ray 



