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https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-313-7592-9cross the Sun. Observing in “pathetic isolation,” they long remained the only members of an exclusive fraternity, sole beholders of what Edmond Halley would call “that sight which is by far the noblest astronomy affords.”

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https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-313-7608-7 latitude of an observer would have a major effect on the duration of the transit, as well as on the times of the individual contacts. Thus, to complement Captain Cook’s observations made from near the south Halleyan pole, a number of observers went to the far-northern track; a few even penetrated t

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De ontwerper van een zorgtraject,In contrast, the 1882 transit would be seen, at least in part, throughout the United States and the areas of Europe that had missed out in 1874. Public interest ran very high, stimulated by newspapers and periodicals and by a piquant awareness of the rarity of the event, and probably attained to the

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https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-313-7379-6A star winks out without warning, then reappears seconds later. The landscape falls into twilight while the Sun’s corona flares into brief visibility. For a few hours, an intensely black dot moves across the face of the Sun for the first time in over a century.