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The balloon slowly rotating, forcing Mendeleev to turn within the little basket to keep the sun in sight. Then for about 10 to 20 seconds, the clouds opened up and he could see around the black moon what he described as a ring of pure silver color. This pure silver color on even at its outer edge near the bottom he thought he saw a red glow of a prominent. He reached for a moment to measure the corona. Before he could make the measurement, another cloud covered the sun. He kept staring or staring, sorry, toward the hidden eclipse. Then the clouds turned gold. Across the great deck he saw the moon shadow moving like a vast uneven wave. The return to daylight was almost instantaneous.