The transcript of this letter is not available online on Ɛpsilon.
Please cite as “Herschel2559,” in Ɛpsilon: The Sir John Herschel Collection accessed on 28 March 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/herschel/letters/Herschel2559
Has no suggestions to improve photographs. Wants to determine whether the degradation of light from center to edge of sun is 'real.' Does not think sun's size affects focus.
Record created for the Calendar of the Correspondence of Sir John Herschel (CUP: Cambridge), 1998 by Michael J. Crowe ed., David R. Dyck and James J. Kevin assoc. eds
Digital record created by Dr Marvin Bolt and Steven Lucy at the Webster Institute of the Adler Planetarium
Converted to TEI by Michael Hawkins, Epsilon Project, Cambridge University Library
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