 | Smithsonian Institution. Board of Regents - 1911 - 846 pages
...being early stages of an evolutional progression. I looked Into the spectroscope. No spectrum such as I expected. A single bright line only. At first I suspected...part of the spectrum to which its light belongs In refranglbility. A little closer looking showed two other bright lines on the side toward the blue,... | |
 | Smithsonian Institution. Board of Regents - 1911 - 844 pages
...about to look iuto a secret place of creation? ^ I looked into the spectroscope. No spectrum such as I expected. A single bright line only. At first I suspected...occupying in the instrument a position at that part of the siwctrum to which its light belongs in refraugibility. A little closer looking showed two other bright... | |
 | Smithsonian Institution. Board of Regents - 1911 - 840 pages
...its faces. This thought was scarcely more than momentary. Then the true Interpretation flushed U]X>n me. The light of the nebula was monochromatic, and...it remained concentrated Into a single bright line, haviug a width corresponding to the width of the silt, and occupying in the instrument a position at... | |
 | Smithsonian Institution. Board of Regents - 1903 - 892 pages
...first volume of the Publications of the Tulse Hill Observatory: "On the evening of August 21*, lSti4, I directed the spectroscope for the first time to...part of the spectrum to which its light belongs in refningibility. A little closer looking showed two other bright lines on the side toward the blue,... | |
 | Smithsonian Institution. Board of Regents - 1911 - 850 pages
...nebulosity Is but the glare of stars too remote to be I looked into the spectroscope. No spectrum such as I expected. A single bright line only. At first I suspected...part of the spectrum to which its light belongs in refrangibllity. A little closer looking showed two other bright lines on the side toward the blue,... | |
 | Smithsonian Institution. Board of Regents - 1911 - 854 pages
...spectroscope. No spectrum such as I expected. A single bright line only. At first I suspected gome displacement of the prism, and that I was looking...concentrated into a single bright line, having a width cor• responding to the width of the slit, and occupying in the instrument a position at that part... | |
 | Smithsonian Institution. Board of Regents - 1903 - 906 pages
...scarcely more than momentary; then the true interpretation flushed upon me. The light of the nebula WHS monochromatic, and so, unlike any other light I had...part of the spectrum to which its light belongs in rcfrangibility. A little closer looking showed two other bright lines on the side toward the blue,... | |
 | Smithsonian Institution. Board of Regents - 1903 - 960 pages
...interpretation flashed upon me. The light of the nebula was monochromatic, and so, unlike any other light 1 had as yet subjected to prismatic examination, could...part of the spectrum to which its light belongs in refmngibility. A little closer looking showed two other bright lines on the side toward the blue, all... | |
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I looked Into the spectroscope. No spectrum such as I expected. A single bright line only. At first I suspected some displacement of the prism, and that I was looking at a reflection of the Illuminated slit from one of its faces. This thought was scarcely... 