 ... (4) They differ in the regularity of their colouring. Four colours in particular have been noticeable in these after-glows, and in a fixed order of time and place — orange, lowest and nearest the sundown; above this, and broader, green; above this,...  The Eruption of Krakatoa: And Subsequent Phenomena - Page 174by Royal Society (Great Britain). Krakatoa Committee, George James Symons, John Wesley Judd, Sir Richard Strachey, William James Lloyd Wharton, Frederick John Evans, Francis Albert Rollo Russell, Douglas Archibald, George Mathews Whipple - 1888 - 494 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Sir Norman Lockyer - Electronic journals - 1884 - 662 pages
...and place — orange, lowest and nearest the sundown ; above this, and broader, green ; above this, broader still, a variable red, ending in being crimson...crimson to scarlet or orange fills the west and south. The four colours I have named are mentioned in Lieut. GN Bittleston's letter from Umballa : " The sun... | |
 | Sir Norman Lockyer - Electronic journals - 1884 - 1196 pages
...nearest the sundown ; above this, and broader, green ; above this, broader still, a variable reel, ending in being crimson ; above this a faint lilac....varying downwards from crimson to scarlet or orange tills the west and south. The four colours I have named are mentioned in Lieut. GN Bittleston's letter... | |
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