Sunrise halo
Date
1888
Creator - Organisation
After
Eduard Moritz Pechuël-Loesche (1840 - 1913, German) , Naturalist
Object type
Library reference
RCN46652
Material
Technique
Dimensions
height (print): 136mm
width (print): 191mm
height (card support): 192mm
width (card support): 275mm
width (print): 191mm
height (card support): 192mm
width (card support): 275mm
Subject
Content object
Description
Study of a lighting effect caused by atmospheric dust and gases ejected by the 1883 volcanic eruption on the island of Krakatoa (Krakatau, Indonesia). A solar halo in the dawn twilight, observed in Hereroland, Kan-Thal (then German South West Africa) now the approximate region of Namibia, Africa, 4 September 1884.
Plate 5 from the book Untersuchungen uber Dämmerungserscheinungen zur Erklarung der nach dem Krakatau-ausbruch beobachteten atmospharisch-optischen Storung, by J. Kiessling (Hamburg, Leopold Voss, 1888).
The plate is inscribed above: ‘Kiessling, Dämmerung-Untersuchungen. Taf. V.’ Inscribed below: ‘KREISFORMER DAMMERUNGSSCHEIN BEI SONNENAUFGANG. [Circular twilight halo at sunrise]. Pechuel-Loesche. Hereroland, Kan-Thal, Sept. 4. 1884. Chromolithographie von Leo Kempner & Co. in Hamburg. Verlag von Leopold Voss in Hamburg (und Leipzig).’
Karl Johann Kiessling (1839-1905) German physicist, replicated twilight glow phenomena in the laboratory.
Eduard Moritz Pechuël-Loesche (1840-1913) German naturalist and watercolour painter who travelled widely, including on expeditions to the Congo, Africa.
Plate 5 from the book Untersuchungen uber Dämmerungserscheinungen zur Erklarung der nach dem Krakatau-ausbruch beobachteten atmospharisch-optischen Storung, by J. Kiessling (Hamburg, Leopold Voss, 1888).
The plate is inscribed above: ‘Kiessling, Dämmerung-Untersuchungen. Taf. V.’ Inscribed below: ‘KREISFORMER DAMMERUNGSSCHEIN BEI SONNENAUFGANG. [Circular twilight halo at sunrise]. Pechuel-Loesche. Hereroland, Kan-Thal, Sept. 4. 1884. Chromolithographie von Leo Kempner & Co. in Hamburg. Verlag von Leopold Voss in Hamburg (und Leipzig).’
Karl Johann Kiessling (1839-1905) German physicist, replicated twilight glow phenomena in the laboratory.
Eduard Moritz Pechuël-Loesche (1840-1913) German naturalist and watercolour painter who travelled widely, including on expeditions to the Congo, Africa.
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