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Observations of a Low Altitude Aurora and Simultaneous Phenomena

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IN the afternoon of Nov. 16, 1929, during my stay in Abisko in northern Sweden (N. lat. 68° 21′) I observed a rather intensive auroral ray of about 10° apparent length and about ½° apparent breadth in the west-south-west below a completely cloudy sky. The exact time of the first observation was 16h 18m G.M.T. After about one minute the ray disappeared, but later it appeared and disappeared several times during an interval of about ten minutes. The colour was reddish-yellow. No sound was heard.

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  1. Cf. NATURE, July 12, 1930, p. 57.

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CORLIN, A. Observations of a Low Altitude Aurora and Simultaneous Phenomena. Nature 127, 553–554 (1931). https://doi.org/10.1038/127553a0

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