Wo have received the following note from the Sicawei Observatory On Wednes'lay morning, at half-past four, the heavy fog which was arising from the Shanghai plain gave rise to a multiple and remarkably bright lunar "corona," the crown displaying several of the spectrum colours in concentric circles around the moon, At the same time, an observer, turning his back to the gaudy sight, could behold another phenomenon very rarely to be met with in this country. A distinctly visible bow," was shining to the east, lead-white, neatly shaped re, similar in its form as in its cause though not in its colour to the familiar. rainbow.
A little later, at 5.10, our satellite, which had—in get psoegs ie the penumbra of the Earth, began by degrees to assume a dall, dead colour, vividly con-tresting with its recent glowing brilliant At 5.53, the time of the first contact, the NE. part of the disk was darkening. At 6, the obscuration caused by the cone of the shadow sweeping the sky behind the Earth was more and more obvious, The shad moved on steadily, progressing tow centre, until, owing to the thickening fog and the approaching sunrise, the phenomenon lost a great deal of its interest, and the moon vanished away altogether before the beginning of the total phase, which lasted from 7.3 to 8.32.
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