On the evening of the 29th of August, 1864, I directed the telescope for the first time to a planetary nebula in Draco. The reader may now be able to picture to himself to some extent the feeling of excited suspense, mingled with a degree of awe, with... Astronomers of To-day and Their Work - Page 10by Hector Macpherson - 1905 - 261 pagesFull view - About this book
| 1897 - 918 pages
...the 29th of August, 1864, I directed the telescope for the first time to a planetary nebula in Draco. The reader may now be able to picture to himself to...not about to look Into a secret place of creation? I looked Into the spectroscope. No spectrum such as I expected! A single bright line only! At first,... | |
| 1910 - 742 pages
...examined by Huggins was a bright planetary nebula in Draco. "The reader" he said in an account of his work "may now be able to picture to himself to some extent...not about to look into a secret place of Creation ? The spectrum was one of bright lines proving conclusively its gaseous nature. By 1808 Huggins had... | |
| 1900 - 600 pages
...the 2Qth of August, 1864, I directed the telescope for the first time to a planetary nebula in Draco. The reader may now be able to picture to himself to...not about to look into a secret place of creation? I looked into the spectroscope. No spectrum such as I expected! A single bright line only! At first... | |
| William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1909 - 1374 pages
...publications of the Lick Observatory, first observation of the spectrum of a nebula, of which he writes : ' The reader may now be able to picture to himself to...not about to look into a secret place of creation ? ' Look then he did, and saw a nebular spectrum. But it was not a continuous spectrum like that of... | |
| Astronomical Society of the Pacific - 1909 - 614 pages
...evening of August 29, 1864, I directed my telescope for the first time to a planetary nebula in Draco. The reader may now be able to picture to himself to...mingled with a degree of awe, with which, after a few minutes of hesitation, I put my eye to the spectroscope. Was I not about to look into a secret place... | |
| Astronomical Society of the Pacific - 1910 - 316 pages
...evening of August 29, 1864, I directed my telescope for the first time to a planetary nebula in Draco. The reader may now be able to picture to himself to...mingled with a degree of awe, with which, after a few minutes of hesitation, I put my eye to the spectroscope. Was I not about to look into a secret place... | |
| Smithsonian Institution. Board of Regents - 1911 - 840 pages
...evening of August 29, 1864, I directed my telescope for the first time to a planetary nebula in Draco. The reader may now be able to picture to himself to...mingled with a degree of awe, with which, after a few minutes of hesitation, I put my eye to the spectroscope. Was I not about to look into a secret place... | |
| Hector Macpherson - 1926 - 220 pages
...nebula in the constellation Draco. ' The reader ', said Huggins, in a paper published long afterwards, ' may now be able to picture to himself to some extent...not about to look into a secret place of creation ? I looked into the spectroscope. No spectrum such as I expected ! A single bright line only. . . .... | |
| 1897 - 1044 pages
...the 29th of August, 1864, I directed the telescope for the first time to a planetary nebula in Draco. The reader may now be able to picture to himself to...not about to look into a secret place of creation ? I looked into the spectroscope. No spectrum such as I expected ! A single bright line only ! At first,... | |
| David Malin, Paul Murdin - 1984 - 214 pages
...radiation. A small energy jump produces a lowenergy, long- wavelength quantum. planetary nebula in Drac0. The reader may now be able to picture to himself to...not about to look into a secret place of creation f I looked into the spectroscope. No spectrum such as I expected! A single bright line only! . . .... | |
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