Spots in the Sun - Diminution of the Sun - Parhelia, or Mock Suns - Eclipses - Halo, or Corona; and similar Appearances - Falling or Shooting Star - Volcanoes in the Moon.

Hail, sacred source of inexhausted light!

Prodigious instance of creating might!

His distance man's imagination foils;

Numbers will scarce avail to count the miles.

His globose body how immensely great!

How fierce his burnings! how intense his heat!

As swift as thought, he darts his radiance round

To distant worlds, his system's utmost bound;

Of all the planets the directing soul,

That heightens and invigorates the whole. Brown.