...STARS. Among the illustrations to Sir John Herschel's work is the noble globular cluster, Centaur ; beyond all comparison the richest and largest object of the kind in the heavens. The stars are literally innumerable ; and as their total light, when received by the naked eye, affects it hardly...

...STAR3. Among the illustrations to Sir John Herschel's work is the noble globular cluster, Centaur ; beyond all comparison the richest and largest object of the kind in the heavens. The stars are literally innumerable ; and as their total light, when received by the naked eye, affects it hardly...

...Mr. Dunlop's catalogue (Phil. Trans. 1828) ; but it is from the observations of Sir John llerschel, at the Cape, that the knowledge of its splendid character...that, when it was concentric with the field of Sir J. llorschel's 20 ft. telescope, the straggling stars at the edges were beyond the limit of the field....

...round in form; and when lately observed by Sir John Herschel at the Cape, was pronounced by him as beyond all comparison the richest and largest object of the kind in the heavens, having a diameter equal to two-thirds that of the moon. In 1681 Kirch discovered a nebulous spot near...

...in 1677 ; and this when lately observed by Sir John Herschel at the Cape, was pronounced by him as beyond all comparison the richest and largest object of the kind in the heavens ; having a diameter equal to two-thirds that of the moon. In 1681 Kirch discovered a nebulous spot...

...Globular Cluster, <a Centauri. Gen. Cat. 3531. RA xiii. h. 18m. DS 46° 35'. Of this H. says, that it is beyond all comparison the richest and largest object of the kind in the heavens. Its diameter (in his 18^ inch mirror) is full 20', or •§- that of the moon : the stars are literally...

...of which the great observer has given a beautiful and surprising representation. In this cluster, " beyond all comparison the richest and largest object of the kind in the heavens/' and having a diameter of full 20. or ^ that of the moon, " there must be thousands of stars :" near...

...30" in right ascension." Fig. 103 is No. 3504 of Herschel: " The noble globular cluster o> Centauri, beyond all comparison the richest and largest object of the kind in the heavens. The stare are literally innumerable, and as their FIG. 102.—Cluster 4" Toncanl. Right ascension, 0 hours...

...in right ascension." Fig. 103 is No. 3504 of Ilerschel : " The noble globular cluster ,„ Centauri, beyond all comparison the richest and largest object of the kind in the heavens. The stars are literally innumerable, and as their No-h. FIG. 102.— Chister47Toncnni. Ri^ht ascen- Fio. 103.—...

...closely juxtaposed." — (Outlines of Ast. p. 637.) Elsewhere Sir John says that this cluster is " beyond all comparison the richest and largest object of the kind in the heavens. The stars are literally innumerable, and as their total light when received by the naked eye affects it hardly...