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  • Bishop's ring—An observation of a faint, broad, reddish-brown corona by the Rev. S. Bishop of Honolulu during the eruption of Krakatoa in 1883.
    He described an angular radius of the inner edge of 20° and an angular width of about 10°. Subsequent observations are rare to nonexistent.