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ABSTRACT THE ZODIACAL LIGHT.—Mr. Denning writes us that displays of this light were surprisingly intense on the mornings of December 4 and 5. He has observed it on many hundreds of


occasions, both at the morning and evening apparitions, but never remembers to have seen it more conspicuous. It stretched upwards from about E. by S., and its fainter limits were just


traceable, to the stars Regulus and υ Leonis in the Sickle of Leo. It was best seen at about 5.40 a.m., and as Regulus passed the meridian at Bristol at 5.23 and 5.19 on the mornings


mentioned, the light must have extended over a considerable arc. Access through your institution Buy or subscribe This is a preview of subscription content, access via your institution


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_Nature_ 98, 277 (1916). https://doi.org/10.1038/098277a0 Download citation * Issue Date: 07 December 1916 * DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/098277a0 SHARE THIS ARTICLE Anyone you share the


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