 | sir John Frederick W. Herschel (1st bart.) - Astronomy - 1864 - 790 pages
...in full sunshine. I have frequently compared the moon setting behind the grey perpendicular fafadc 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 imd moon being... | |
 | Johann Karl Friedrich Zöllner - Astronomical photometry - 1865 - 380 pages
...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 from the rock in contact with it. The Sun and Moon being... | |
 | Johann Karl Friedrich Zöllner - Astronomical photometry - 1865 - 374 pages
...in full sunshme. I have frequently compared the Moon , setting behind the gray, perpendicular facade of the Table Mountain, illuminated by the Sun just risen in the opposite quarter of the liorizon, when it has scarcely been distinguishable in brightness from the rock in contact with it.... | |
 | John Frederick William Herschel - Astronomy - 1869 - 590 pages
...in full sunshine. I have frequently compared the moon setting behind ihe grey perpendicular facade of the Table Mountain, illuminated by the sun just...horizon, when it has been scarcely distinguishable in ^tightness from the rock in contact with it. The sun and moon being nearly at equal altitudes and the... | |
 | Industrial arts - 1891 - 610 pages
...in full sunshine. I have frequently compared the moon eettiug behind the grey perpendicular facade of the Table Mountain, illuminated by the sun just...risen in the opposite quarter of the horizon, when it him been t'arcely distinguishable in brightness from the rock in contact u-ith it." The words which... | |
 | Royal Institution of Great Britain - Science - 1896 - 740 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... | |
 | John Naylor - Nature - 2002 - 388 pages
...Earth that has the same brightness as the Moon. the Moon setting behind the grey 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... 
