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The Sun and Stars 1

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III. The Spots IN the large photographs now secured at Meudon and in India, and smaller ones now received from India, the Mauritius, and Australia, showing the spots as they are photographed there, I am glad to say almost every day now, on a scale of 8 inches to the sun's diameter, we get wonderful records of what a spot really is, and how it changes.

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LOCKYER, J. The Sun and Stars 1 . Nature 33, 469–472 (1886). https://doi.org/10.1038/033469a0

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