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Originally Posted by north
Sure the corona is very thin but what of the sun's atmosphere before the corona? Nearer to the surface?
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Most of the starlight measured in these experiments do not pass anywhere near the surface; the closest they ever get to the Sun is several solar radii away.
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I didn't suggest that the bending of light by the sun from a star behind the sun had anything to do with light emanating from the sun. Where did that come from?
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So what are these "emanations?"
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"Close to the limb of the body"? What does that mean exactly?
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The apparent edge of a disk-like body (Sun, Moon, planets, etc.) is called the limb.
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The emanations from the sun are not pushing starlight away from the sun but towards it hence the observations seen by Eddington. [Snip!]
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Again, what are these "emanations" and how is it that they attract light rather than repelling it?