High level (H2) calcium vapour surrounding the Great Sun-spot of 1903

Made:
1903 in Williams Bay
photographer:
F Ellerman
and
George Ellery Hale

High level (H2) calcium vapour surrounding the Great Sun-spot of 1903, October 10, 9h. 9m. C. S.T. slit at 3968.6 Sun's diam. = .77 metre, taken with the Rumford spectroheliograph and 40-inch refractor of the Yerkes Observatory by G.E. Hale and F. Ellerman

Details

Category:
Astronomy
Object Number:
1912-421
Materials:
paper
type:
black-and-white prints (photographs), astrophotographs, sun and sun spots
credit:
Royal Astronomical Society