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THERE was a very bright display of these clouds last night. I could not perceive anything of them up to 10 p.m., though the sky was clear, but by 10.18 they had become conspicuous, and were brightest, so far as I observed, near midnight.
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BACKHOUSE, T. The “Sky-coloured Clouds”. Nature 38, 270 (1888). https://doi.org/10.1038/038270e0
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