The Observatory, Volume 33Editors of the Observatory, 1910 Some vols. for 1886- include a special issue: Annual companion to the Observatory. |
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A. C. D. Crommelin aperture appeared April Area Astronomer Royal August Barlow lens bright British Astronomical Association catalogue centre Crommelin d h d h David Gill determined direction distance double stars E. W. Maunder Earth eclipse envelope ephemeris equator Evershed fact Greenwich Group Halley Halley's Comet Herc Hinks Huggins interesting July June Jupiter latitude light longitude Lowell magnitude Mars Maunder mean measures Meeting meridian meteor month Moon nebula night November nucleus object observations Observatory orbit paper perihelion period photographs planet plate Pole present President Prof proper motions refractor remarkable right ascensions rotation Royal Astronomical Society satellites seems seen Sept September small spots solar spectra spectroscopic spectrum Spot-Groups stream sun-spots Sun's Swift tail telescope theory Variable Stars velocity Venus visible XXXIII
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Page 5 - There will be two Eclipses of the Sun and two of the Moon.
Page 336 - Whether diamonds and other precious stones grow again after three or four years in the same places where they have been dug out? A. Never, or at least as the memory of man can attain to.
Page 90 - ... grievous pestilence, dearth and some great calamity. Calixtus, to avert the wrath of God, ordered supplications that if evils were impending for the human race He would turn all upon the Turks, the enemies of the Christian name. He likewise ordered, to move God by continual entreaty, that notice should be given by the bells to call the faithful at midday to aid by their prayers those engaged in battle with the Turk.
Page 121 - ... from the discharge apparatus, and found in the case of three tests agreeing well with one another, that it varied very nearly inversely as the square of the distance of the screen from the discharge apparatus.
Page 485 - Gilliss who first in all the land conducted a working observatory, he who first gave his whole time to practical astronomical work, he who first published a volume of observations, first prepared a catalogue of stars, and planned and carried into effect the construction of a working observatory as contrasted with one intended chiefly for purposes of instruction.
Page 184 - An act for regulating the commencement of the year; and for correcting the calendar now in use.
Page 183 - Then it was found that seventy-five years were added, at a single step, to the period during which the history of the moon's motion could be written. Previously this history was supposed to commence with the observations of Bradley, at Greenwich, about 1750 ; now it was extended back to 1675, and with a less degree of accuracy thirty years farther still.
Page 367 - I STOOD beside the grave of him who blazed The comet of a season, and I saw The humblest of all sepulchres, and gazed With not the less of sorrow and of awe On that neglected turf and quiet stone, With name no clearer than the names unknown, Which lay unread around it ; and I ask'd The Gardener of that ground, why it might be That for this plant strangers his memory...
Page 224 - MAY IT PLEASE YOUR MAJESTY : We, the President, Council, and Fellows of the Royal...
Page 236 - ... in our laboratories. The strongest lines of the substances which in the case of such meteorites would first show themselves, iron, sodium, magnesium, nickel, etc., are not those which distinguish the nebular spectrum.