Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, Volumes 3-4Astronomical Society of the Pacific, 1891 |
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... complete card catalogue , and this is found to be a great convenience in the case of pamphlets , even in so small a collection . As soon as the equatorial is in place the work of photographing the prominences will be recommenced , and ...
... complete card catalogue , and this is found to be a great convenience in the case of pamphlets , even in so small a collection . As soon as the equatorial is in place the work of photographing the prominences will be recommenced , and ...
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... completing it for publication . It is not possible to give in this place an adequate review of this great work . An excellent short account of it is given in Knowledge , for Sept. Astronomical Society of the Pacific . 45 Addendum to ...
... completing it for publication . It is not possible to give in this place an adequate review of this great work . An excellent short account of it is given in Knowledge , for Sept. Astronomical Society of the Pacific . 45 Addendum to ...
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... complete period of about four days , the maximum displacement toward the violet indicating a motion of the star toward the sun of 65.9 English miles , and that toward the red a receding motion of 47.5 miles per second . These ...
... complete period of about four days , the maximum displacement toward the violet indicating a motion of the star toward the sun of 65.9 English miles , and that toward the red a receding motion of 47.5 miles per second . These ...
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... complete that we must admit their reality . If our knowledge of the rings of Saturn rested on evidence of similar character , and not on actual observation with the telescope , the facts to be accepted would seem equally strange . and ...
... complete that we must admit their reality . If our knowledge of the rings of Saturn rested on evidence of similar character , and not on actual observation with the telescope , the facts to be accepted would seem equally strange . and ...
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... complete picture with the 33 - inch telescope . * Professor PICKERING has been kind enough to determine the photographic magnitude of this star . In a letter dated December 2 , 1890 , he writes : " I have had a photograph of the star in ...
... complete picture with the 33 - inch telescope . * Professor PICKERING has been kind enough to determine the photographic magnitude of this star . In a letter dated December 2 , 1890 , he writes : " I have had a photograph of the star in ...
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