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Definition von bailys beads im Englisch Englisch wörterbuch
- Just before and after a total eclipse, the slender, unobscured crescent of the sun's disk appears momentarily like a row of bright spots resembling a string of beads
- A row of bright spots observed in connection with total eclipses of the sun
- The phenomenon (first fully described by Francis Baily, 1774 1844) is thought to be an effect of irradiation, and of inequalities of the moon's edge