 | Royal Astronomical Society - 1867 - 668 pages
...thereby so feeble as to defy the discrimination of still darker lines if such existed.* But here I cannot do better than describe the phenomena in Mr....in place of this, there were three isolated bright linen only. " This observation was sufficient to solve the long agitated inquiry in reference to this... | |
 | 1867 - 400 pages
...telescope of the spectrum apparatus, to perceive that there was no appearance of a band of colored light, such as a star would give ; but, in place of...only. " This observation was sufficient to solve the long-agitated inquiry, in reference to this object at least, and to show that it was not a group of... | |
 | 1867 - 400 pages
...telescope of the spectrum apparatus, to perceive that there was no appearance of a band of colored light, such as a star would give ; but, in place of...isolated bright lines only. " This observation was sufiicient to solve the long-agitated inquiry, in reference to this object at least, and to show that... | |
 | British Association for the Advancement of Science - 1869 - 858 pages
...the first attempt, in August 1864, one of the class of small, but comparatively bright nebulae. His surprise was very great, on looking into the small...this, there were three isolated bright lines only. The spectrum of this nebula is represented in fig. 5 of Plate III. This observation was sufficient... | |
 | 1871 - 716 pages
...looking into the small telescope of the spectrum apparatus, to observe no appearance of a band of colored light, such as a star would give, but in place of this there were three isolated bright lines only." A grand problem was thus solved, and the results obtained by this first attempt were very fully confirmed... | |
 | 1873 - 800 pages
...planetary nebula in Draco. He was astonished to find that there was no appear.ance of a band of colored light, such as a star would give ; but, in place of this, there were three isolated bright lines on a dark ground— a true gaseous or vaporous spectrum. In other words, the object was not a cluster... | |
 | Robert Patterson - 1885 - 324 pages
...telescope of the spectrum apparatus, to perceive that there was no appearance of a band of colored light, such as a star would give: but in place of...only. "This observation was sufficient to solve the long-agitated inquiry, in reference to this object at least, and to show that it was not a group of... | |
 | 1900 - 600 pages
...for the first attempt, in August, 1864, one of the class of small but comparatively bright nebulae. My surprise was very great on looking into the small...only. This observation was sufficient to solve the long-agitated inquiry in reference to this object at least, and to show that it was not a group of... | |
 | 1871 - 712 pages
...looking into the small telescope of the spectrum apparatus, to observe no appearance of a band of colored light, such as a star would give, but in place of this there were three isolated lyright lines only." A grand problem was thus solved, and the results obtained by this first attempt... | |
 | Smithsonian Institution. Board of Regents - 1867 - 484 pages
...small telescope of the spectrum apparatus to perceive that there was no appearance of a band of colored light, such as a star would give, but in place of...agitated inquiry in reference to this object at least, aud to show that it was not a group of stars, but a true nebula. A spectrum of this character, so far... | |
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This observation was sufficient to solve the long-agitated inquiry in reference to this object at least, and to show that it was not a group of stars, but a true nebula. A spectrum of this character, so far as our knowledge at present extends, can be... 
