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	Paul D. Maley - Ring of Fire Expeditions
		At all annular eclipses and some total eclipses we attempt observation of the marvelous Baily's Beads (named for Sir Francis Baily after his observation of a solar eclipse in 1836) which appear at central eclipse.
		These are the Baily's Beads which appear as dazzling points of sunlight of varying size.
		The NASA JSC Astronomical Society's public outreach allows anyone who has an interest in eclipse observing to join our expeditions and also to participate in the Baily's Beads research project.
	www.eclipsetours.com /science.html (1507 words)

	Solar Eclipses - Enchanted Learning Software
		Baily's beads are caused by light shining through valleys on the edge of the moon.
		Baily's beads (often spelled Bailey's beads) are bead-like bursts of light that appear about 15 seconds before and after totality during a solar eclipse.
		They were named for the British astronomer Francis Baily (1774-1844), one of the founders of the Royal Astronomical Society.
	www.enchantedlearning.com /subjects/astronomy/sun/solareclipses.shtml (522 words)

	Virtual Science Center
		Baily’s beads also quickly succumb to the encroaching moon, winking out one or two at a time until totality is fulfilled; the disappearance of the last bead marks the moment of second contact and the beginning of totality.
		Unlike Baily’s beads, the diamond ring, for all its spectacle, is not a true phenomenon of totality but a product of the final moments of the pre–totality partial phases and their post–totality resurgence.
		It may be interesting to note that Baily’s beads were first successfully photographed at the eclipse of 7 August 1869 by C. Hines and members of the Philadelphia Photographic Corps from a site in Ottumwa, Iowa.
	www.chabotspace.org /vsc/planetarium/eclipses/observeeclipses/chapter9.asp (1223 words)

	Active Skim View of: 8. The American Eclipses of 1780 and 1806
		BAILY’S BEADS SEEN IN 1780 One may or may not consider another outcome of the eclipse expedition to Maine in 1780 to be an embarrassment.
		In the opening chapter we met Francis Baily, the British astronomer who in 1836 gave a description of the luminous phenomenon seen just as totality begins and ends, universally known as “Baily s beads.” It so happened that Samuel Williams noticed these beads of light during the 1780 eclipse.
		All worked precisely as they should, although there have been questions raised as to whether the times of the eclipse contacts reported by Williams, and the extent of the arc of the Sun seen as remaining uncovered, were consistent with the stipulated observatory site.
	www.nap.edu /nap-cgi/skimit.cgi?isbn=030907438X&chap=174-195 (1235 words)

	Effects During a Total Solar Eclipse
		Baily's beads make their brief appearance up to 15 seconds before totality.
		Baily's beads appear, followed by a thin crescent of the Sun.
		These points of light are spaced irregularly around the disappearing edge of the Sun, forming the appearance of a string of beads around the dark disk of the Moon.
	www.earthview.com /tutorial/effects.htm (774 words)

	MSN Encarta - Search Results - eclipse
		Baily’s Beads, phenomenon associated with total eclipses of the sun, first described in the 19th century by the British astronomer Francis Baily....
		Baily’s Beads, phenomenon associated with total eclipses of the sun
		Eclipse, in astronomy, the obscuring of one celestial body by another, particularly that of the sun or a planetary satellite.
	ca.encarta.msn.com /eclipse.html (105 words)

	Amazon.com: Books: Totality: Eclipses of the Sun
		On May 15, 1836, he watched as light from the occluded sun poured through the lunar valleys and reached him broken up into "a row of lucid points, like a string of bright beads." With those words, Baily founded the industry of eclipse chasing.
		CAPs: Baily's Beads, The First Eclipse Expeditions, The Great Celestial Cover-Up, Lick Observatory, Mabel Loomis Todd (more)
		Francis Baily spent his 20s exploring unsettled parts of North America and didn't get around to astronomy until he was 37, when he traveled to an annular eclipse of the Sun in southern Scotland.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0195131797?v=glance (1274 words)

	Eclipse
		These lights are called 'Baily's Beads' after the British astronomer Francis Baily who discovered them.
		Near the beginning and end of total solar eclipse, the thin slice of the Sun visible appears broken up into beads of light.
		They occur because the edge of the Moon is not smooth but jagged with mountain peaks.
	www.crystalinks.com /eclipse.html (3672 words)

	Baily's beads - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		While Baily's Beads are briefly seen for a few seconds at the central path of the eclipse, their effect is maximized near the eclipse limits to 1-2 minutes.
		This effect is called Baily's Beads, named in honor of Francis Baily who first noted the phenomenon in 1836.
		As the moon "grazes" by the Sun during the eclipse, the rugged lunar limb topography allows beads of sunlight to shine through.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Baily's_beads (139 words)

	Francis Baily - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		His observations of "Baily's Beads," during an annular eclipse of the sun on May 15, 1836, at Inch Bonney in Roxburghshire, started the modern series of eclipse-expeditions.
		Baily's Account of the Rev. John Flamsteed (1835) is of fundamental importance to the scientific history of that time.
		Francis Baily (April 28, 1774– August 30, 1844), English astronomer, was born at Newbury, Berkshire.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Francis_Baily (324 words)

	Brewer, E. Cobham. Dictionary of Phrase & Fable. Bead (Anglo-Saxon, bed, a prayer).
		This was first observed by Francis Baily, whence the name of the phenomenon.
		When the disc of the moon has (in an eclipse) reduced that of the sun to a thin crescent, the crescent assumes the appearance of a string of beads.
		Single joints of the articulated stems of encrinites.
	www.bartleby.com /81/1510.html (208 words)

	BAILY, FRANCIS (1774-1844) - Online Information article about BAILY, FRANCIS (1774-1844)
		notice of " Baily's Beads," during an See also:
		BAILY, FRANCIS (1774-1844) - Online Information article about BAILY, FRANCIS (1774-1844)
		July 1842, observed by Baily himself at See also:
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /BAI_BAR/BAILY_FRANCIS_1774_1844_.html (643 words)

	Baily's beads
		Small “beads” of sunlight that shine through the valleys on the limb of the Moon in the instant before (or after) totality in a solar eclipse.
		They are named after the English astronomer Francis Baily (1774-1844) who first drew attention to them in 1836.
	www.daviddarling.info /encyclopedia/B/Bailys_beads.html (120 words)

	The Hutchinson Dictionary of Scientific Biography: Baily, Francis (1774-1844)@ HighBeam Research
		English astronomer who is best known for his discovery of the phenomenon called 'Baily's beads'.
		Baily was born in Newbury, Berkshire, on 28 April 1774.
		He began a seven-year apprenticeship in 1788 with a firm of merchant bankers in London, but as soon as his apprenticeship ended he set out to explore unsettled parts of North America.
	highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?DOCID=1P1:99915728&... (176 words)

	May 15 - FreeEncyclopedia
		1836- Francis Baily observes "Baily's beads[?]" during an annular solar eclipse.
	openproxy.ath.cx /ma/May_15.html (717 words)

	APR - This Month's Astronomy History
		He's most remembered for his observations of the May 15, 1836 total solar eclipse and his explanation of the phenomenon at the beginning and ending of totality now known as Baily's Beads.
		Apr 28, 1774- Francis Baily, a British explorer and stockbroker until turning to astronomy at the age of 50; Baily helped found the Royal Astr.
		Apr 28, 1900 - Jan Hendrick Oort, who quantified the Milky Way's rotation characteristics and proposed a vast, spherical resevoir of comets (the Oort Cloud) surrounding the Sun and stretching nearly half way to the nearest stars.
	astro.martianbachelor.com /TMITHOA/Apr.html (572 words)

	1836
		May 15 - Francis Baily, during an eclipse of the sun, observes the phenomenon named after him as Baily's beads
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	bopedia.com /en/wikipedia/1/18/1836.html (412 words)

	Baily's beads concept from the Astronomy knowledge base
		Baily's beads concept from the Astronomy knowledge base
		abstraction > mathematical concept > number > quantity > angle > elongation > planetary elongation > planetary elongation event > conjunction > occultation > eclipse > solar eclipse > Baily's beads
		Next solar eclipse: total solar eclipse Up: solar eclipse Previous solar eclipse: annular eclipse
	www.csi.uottawa.ca:4321 /astronomy/Bailysbeads.html (82 words)

	Beads
		1774 Francis Baily, describer of "Baily's Beads" during solar eclipse
		1836 Francis Baily observes "Baily's Beads" during annular solar eclipse
		1844 Francis Baily, English astronomer/mathematician (Baily's Beads), dies
	www.brainyhistory.com /topics/b/beads.html (80 words)

	University of Pittsburgh at Bradford > Visitors Center > Media Center > Press Releases Archive > June 2004
		The Columbia Scholastic Press Association, a program of the graduate school of journalism at Columbia University in New York that critiques approximately 1,800-1,900 publications every year, gave Baily’s Beads 900 points out of a total of 1,000, which earned the magazine the silver medalist award.
		The Associated Collegiate Press/National Scholastic Press Association’s critique service from the University of Minnesota, gave Baily’s Beads a first-class honor rating with three marks of distinction in writing and editing; photography, art, graphics and typography; and concept, a total of 460 points out of 500.
		BRADFORD, Pa. – The 2004 edition of Baily’s Beads, the literary magazine at the University of Pittsburgh at Bradford, has received high ratings from three different critique services for showing excellence in areas such as quality of writing, photography, editing and originality.
	www.upb.pitt.edu /visitors/media_center/press_releases/archive/october_04/baileys_beads.htm (497 words)

	Espenak Report: Annular Eclipse 1999 Feb 16
		The five image composite shot around annularity clearly show the chromosphere, a prominence and Baily's beads at both 2nd and 3rd contacts.Film was Kodak Royal Gold 100 (color negative) and the exposure was f/8 at 1/1000 for all frames.
		One of the reasons I picked this location was because it would provide an excellent view of Baily's beads, and yet still offer around 9 seconds of annularity (no beads).It would also provide creature comforts and amenities including toilets, welcome shade and a bar.
		The temperature at 1st contact was 99° F (ground 110° F), but it dropped to 77.2° F (79.5° F ground) at annularity.
	www.mreclipse.com /SEreports/ASE1999/A99Espenak.html (497 words)

	Egyptian Gods and the Solar Eclipse - Part 6
		The twin leonine members of the Heliopolitan Ennead had been possibly inspired by a dazzling eclipse phenomenon, Baily's Beads.
		Through my interpretation of Utterance 600 of the Pyramid Texts in my study 'The Heliopolitan Cosmogony', I have shown that the twin Shu and Tefnut may have been inspired by Baily's Beads:
		In my study 'Hathor the Mistress of Akhet', I have shown that Hathor was the Egyptian goddess of solar eclipses: her horns were possibly the horns of the crescent Sun seen prior to totality; her black color was a rendition of the darkness of the New Moon.
	www.eclipse-chasers.com /egygod6.htm (2146 words)

	Virtual Science Center
		Unlike Baily’s beads, the diamond ring, for all its spectacle, is not a true phenomenon of totality but a product of the final moments of the pre–totality partial phases and their post–totality resurgence.
		Sir Edmund Halley is credited with making the first observations of Baily’s beads during the eclipse of 22 April 1715.
		They were also seen by Maclaurin from Edinburgh during the annular eclipse of 1 March 1737 and by Williams from Revolutionary War America on 27 October 1780 (see Chapter 1) from just outside the path of totality.
	www.chabotspace.org /vsc/planetarium/eclipses/observeeclipses/chapter9.asp (1223 words)

	May 15 - Open Encyclopedia
		1836 - Francis Baily observes "Baily's beads" during an annular eclipse.
		1972 - In Laurel, Maryland a disturbed, out-of-work janitor named Arthur Bremer shoots and paralyzes Alabama Governor George Wallace while Wallace is campaigning to be American President.
	open-encyclopedia.com /15_May (1047 words)

	may 15 - Article and Reference from OnPedia.com
		1836 - Francis Baily observes "Baily's beads" during an annular eclipse.
		1972 - In Laurel, Maryland a disturbed, out-of-work janitor named Arthur Bremer shoots and paralyzes Alabama Governor George Wallace while Wallace is campaigning to be American President.
	www.onpedia.com /encyclopedia/May-15 (1018 words)

	Solar Eclipses - Enchanted Learning Software
		Baily's beads (often spelled Bailey's beads) are bead-like bursts of light that appear about 15 seconds before and after totality during a solar eclipse.
		The longest solar eclipses occur when the Earth is at aphelion (farthest from the Sun, making the solar disc smaller) and the Moon is at perigee (closest to the Earth, making the Moons apparent diameter larger).
		During a total solar eclipse some parts of the Sun that we normally can't see become visible,including the corona (the outermost layer of the sun's atmosphere).
	www.enchantedlearning.com /subjects/astronomy/sun/solareclipses.shtml (531 words)

	Solar Eclipses - Enchanted Learning Software
		Baily's beads (often spelled Bailey's beads) are bead-like bursts of light that appear about 15 seconds before and after totality during a solar eclipse.
		The longest solar eclipses occur when the Earth is at aphelion (farthest from the Sun, making the solar disc smaller) and the Moon is at perigee (closest to the Earth, making the Moons apparent diameter larger).
		During a total solar eclipse some parts of the Sun that we normally can't see become visible,including the corona (the outermost layer of the sun's atmosphere).
	www.enchantedlearning.com /subjects/astronomy/sun/solareclipses.shtml (531 words)

	Amazon.com: Totality: Eclipses of the Sun: Books: Mark Littmann,Ken Willcox
		Baily's Beads, United States, Fred Espenak, Lick Observatory, Mabel Loomis Todd, Francis Baily, Jay Anderson, Jules Janssen, Ken Willcox, Shawnee Prophet, Heel Stone, Steve Edberg, George Lovi, Jay Pasachoff, Mauna Kea, Norman Lockyer, Albert Einstein, Greenwich Mean Time, Indian Ocean, Pacific Ocean, Royal Astronomical Society, Academy of Sciences, Alan Fiala, Angelo Secchi, Edmond Halley
		They showed pictures of the stages of eclipses and famous people such as Albert Einstein and Joseph Norman Lockyer.
		Science and Civilisation in China (Science and Civilisation in China) by Joseph Needham on 4 pages
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0824813715?v=glance (1633 words)

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