 ... of magnitude was determined on each plate by comparing the photographic intensity of the images of a number of stars with the magnitudes as observed with the eye by various observers. Thus on each plate the magnitude was reduced to a visual scale....  Astronomers of To-day and Their Work - Page 187by Hector Macpherson - 1905 - 261 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Simon Newcomb - 1901 - 362 pages
...plate the magnitude was reduced to a visual scale. It does not follow from this that the magnitudes 1 This work of Kapteyn offers a remarkable example of...contribution to knowledge, and the appreciation of his fellow astronomers of this and future generations. 4 are visual, and not photographic. It is still... | |
 | Simon Newcomb - 1901 - 368 pages
...plate the magnitude was reduced to a visual scale. It does not follow from this that the magnitudes 1 This work of Kapteyn offers a remarkable example of...contribution to knowledge, and the appreciation of his fellow astronomers of this and future generations. 4 are visual, and not photographic. It is still... | |
 | Astronomical Society of the Pacific - 1902 - 260 pages
...KAPTEYN 's work is held, the following is added from NEWCOMB, when writing of the Cape Durchmusterung : "This work of KAPTEYN offers a remarkable example...which animates the born investigator of the heavens. . . . The years of toil devoted to it were, as the writer understands, expended without other compensation... | |
 | Royal Astronomical Society - 1902 - 972 pages
...will duly appreciate what he has done for their science." I may here also quote Newcomb's words : " This work of Kapteyn offers a remarkable example of...which animates the born investigator of the heavens. . . . The years of toil devoted to it were, as the writer understands, expended without other compensation... | |
 | 1902 - 882 pages
...will duly appreciate what he has done for their science." I may here also quote Newcomb's words : " This work of Kapteyn offers a remarkable example of...which animates the born investigator of the heavens. . .. The years of toil devoted to it were, as the writer understands, expended without other compensation... | |
 | Simon Newcomb - 1906 - 360 pages
...plate the magnitude was reduced to a visual scale. It does not follow from this that the magnitudes 1 This work of Kapteyn offers a remarkable example of...contribution to knowledge, and the appreciation of his fellow astronomers of this and future generations. 4 are visual, and not photographic. It is still... | |
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