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Views of Sun Spots No.3
One of a set of magic lantern slides designed to accompany a lecture on the Sun. There is no maker's name but the slides carry a trademark consisting of a letter Y with a serpent coiled round it.
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Object Details
ID:
ZBA4535.12
Type:
Lantern slide
Display location:
Not on display
Creator:
Unknown
Date made:
circa 1880; ca. 1900
Credit:
National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London
Measurements:
Overall: 82 mm x 82 mm x 3 mm
Parts:
Astronomy (Lantern slides)
Apparent size of Sun, as seen from Planets (Lantern slide) (ZBA4535.1)
Solar disc, seen by projection (Lantern slide) (ZBA4535.2)
Unequal brightness of the Solar surface (Lantern slide) (ZBA4535.3)
Photoheliograph (Secchi) (Lantern slide) (ZBA4535.4)
Photoheliograph (Kew) (Lantern slide) (ZBA4535.5)
Irregularities of the Solar surface (Lantern slide) (ZBA4535.6)
Solar “Willow Leaves" (Nasmyth) (Lantern slide) (ZBA4535.7)
Solar “Granules” (Huggins) (Lantern slide) (ZBA4535.8)
Minute structure of Solar surface (Langley) (Lantern slide) (ZBA4535.9)
Views of Sun Spots No.1 (Lantern slide) (ZBA4535.10)
Views of Sun Spots No.2 (Lantern slide) (ZBA4535.11)
Views of Sun Spots No.3 (Lantern slide) (ZBA4535.12)
Views of Sun Spots No.4 (Lantern slide) (ZBA4535.13)
The great Sun Spot of 1865 (Howlett) (Lantern slide) (ZBA4535.14)
Typical Sun Spot (Langley) (Lantern slide) (ZBA4535.15)
Faculae near Sun Spot (Lantern slide) (ZBA4535.16)
Zones of Sun Spots (Lantern slide) (ZBA4535.17)
Sun Spots apparently depressions (Lantern slide) (ZBA4535.18)
Wilson’s Theory of Sun Spots (Lantern slide) (ZBA4535.19)
Herschel’s Theory of Sun Spots (Lantern slide) (ZBA4535.20)
Centre of Sun Spot frequency (Wolf) (Lantern slide) (ZBA4535.21)
Connection of Sun Spots with Aurorae and Magnetic Phenomena (Lantern slide) (ZBA4535.22)
Decomposition of Sun-Light by prism (Lantern slide) (ZBA4535.23)
Necessity for use of narrow slit (Lantern slide) (ZBA4535.24)
Spectroscope, with reflected scale (Lantern slide) (ZBA4535.25)
Increased dispersion by series of prisms (Lantern slide) (ZBA4535.26)
Solar Spectroscope (Secchi) (Lantern slide) (ZBA4535.27)
Solar Spectrum (Fraunhofer) (Lantern slide) (ZBA4535.28)
Solar Spectrum (Kirckhoff) (Lantern slide) (ZBA4535.29)
Reversal of Sodium lines on Screen (Lantern slide) (ZBA4535.30)
Telluric lines in Solar Spectrum (Lantern slide) (ZBA4535.31)
Spectrum of Sun Spot (Secchi) (Lantern slide) (ZBA4535.32)
Spectrum of sun Spot near D lines (Lantern slide) (ZBA4535.33)
Thickening of D lines in Sun Spot (Lantern slide) (ZBA4535.34)
Total and annular Eclipses of the Sun (Lantern slide) (ZBA4535.35)
Solar Eclipses 1836 to 1860 (6 views) (Lantern slide) (ZBA4535.36)
Total Solar Eclipse No. 2 1869 (Lantern slide) (ZBA4535.37)
Total Solar Eclipse No. 3 1869 (Lantern slide) (ZBA4535.38)
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