 | John Frederick William Herschel - Astronomy - 1849 - 672 pages
...in full sunshine. I have frequently compared the moon getting behind the grey perpendicular facade of the Table Mountain, illuminated by the sun just...the rock in contact with it. The sun and moon being nearly at equal altitudes and the atmosphere perfectly free from cloud or vapour, its effect is alike... | |
 | Royal Institution of Great Britain - Science - 1896 - 758 pages
...in full sunshine. I have frequently compared the Moon setting behind the gray perpendicular facade of the Table Mountain, illuminated by the Sun just...in the opposite quarter of the horizon, when it has scarcely been distinguishable in brightness [the italics in both cases are mine] from the rock in contact... | |
 | Royal Society (Great Britain) - Electronic journals - 1857 - 656 pages
...in full sunshine. I have frequently compared the moon setting behind the grey perpendicular facade of the Table Mountain, illuminated by the sun just...the rock in contact with it. The sun and moon being nearly at equal altitudes, and the atmosphere perfectly free from cloud or vapour, its effect is alike... | |
 | Physics - 1857 - 1142 pages
...in full sunshine. I have frequently compared the moon setting behind the grey perpendicular facade of the Table Mountain, illuminated by the sun just...the rock in contact with it. The sun and moon being nearly at equal altitudes, and the atmosphere perfectly free from cloud or vapour, its effect is alike... | |
 | Royal Society (Great Britain) - Electronic journals - 1857 - 650 pages
...in full sunshine. I have frequently compared the moon setting behind the grey perpendicular fa£ade of the Table Mountain, illuminated by the sun just...the rock in contact with it. The sun and moon being nearly at equal altitudes, and the atmosphere perfectly free from cloud or vapour, its effect is alike... | |
 | John Frederick William Herschel - Astronomy - 1857 - 608 pages
...the moon setting behind the grey perpendicular facade of the Table Mountain, illuminated by the mm just risen in the opposite quarter of the horizon,...the rock in contact with it. The sun and moon being nearly at equal altitudes and the atmosphere perfectly free from cloud or vapour, its effect is alike... | |
 | Charles W. Vincent, James Mason - Science - 1858 - 364 pages
...in full sunshine. I have frequently compared the moon setting behind the grey perpendicular facade of the Table Mountain, illuminated by the sun just...the rock in contact with it. The sun and moon being nearly at equal altitudes, and the atmosphere perfectly free from cloud or vapour, its effect is alike... | |
 | sir John Frederick W. Herschel (1st bart.) - Astronomy - 1858 - 790 pages
...the sun just risen in (he opposite quarter of the horizon, when it has scarcely been di; tinguMiable in brightness from the rock in contact with it. The sun and moon being nearly at equal altitudes and the atmosphere perfectly free from cloud or vapour, its effect is alike... | |
 | John Frederick William Herschel - Astronomy - 1861 - 572 pages
...compared the moon setting behind the grey perpendicular fagade of the Table Mountain, illuminated*by the sun just risen in the opposite quarter of the...the rock in contact with it. The sun and moon being nearly at equal altitudes and the atmosphere perfectly free from cloud or vapour, its effect is alike... | |
 | Astronomy - 1863 - 530 pages
...full sunshine. I have frequently compared the Moon, setting behind the gray, perpendicular façade of the Table Mountain, illuminated by the Sun just...in the opposite quarter of the horizon, when it has scarcely been distinguishable in brightness from the rock in contact with it. The Sun and Moon being... | |
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The actual illumination of the lunar surface is not much superior to that of weathered sandstone rock in full sunshine. I have frequently compared the moon setting behind the grey perpendicular facade of the Table Mountain, illuminated by the sun just... 
