Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, Volumes 9-10Astronomical Society of the Pacific., 1897 Provides an outlet for current research in astronomy. Contains refereed research and instrumentation papers, invited reviews, and dissertation summaries. |
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819 Market Street Algol aperture April Astronomical Astronomical Society Astronomical Telegram Atlas atmosphere August Board of Directors bright BRUCE Medal C. D. PERRINE California CAMPBELL Capellan catalogue comet Comet-Medal Committee Committee-Messrs constellation December Decl degrees diameter discovery distance dome E. F. CODDINGTON east eclipse Elements of Comet ephemeris equatorial expedition F. R. ZIEL feet Greenwich Hamilton Harvard College Observatory HOLDEN inches instruments January July June Jupiter LIBRARY Lick Observatory longitude magnitude March Mars meeting Mercury meridian Messrs meteor minutes MOLERA month Moon morning star motion Mount Hamilton moves nebula November observations October orbit Pacific photographic PIERSON planet plates Professor proper-motion Publications R. G. AITKEN Royal Observatory San Francisco Saturn SCHAEBERLE SEARES Secretary seen Sept September Sirian solar spectroscope spectrum telescope temperature tion Transit Uranus variable stars velocity Venus W. H. S. MONCK W. J. HUSSEY WILLIAM ALVORD Yerkes Observatory ΙΟ
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Page 56 - Observer' at a salary of 100£ per annum, his duty being 'forthwith to apply himself with the most exact care and diligence to the rectifying the tables of the motions of the heavens and the places of the fixed stars, so as to find out the so much desired longitude of places for the perfecting the art of navigation.
Page 113 - NJ, for his investigations in electric lighting. 1898. James Edward Keeler, of Allegheny, for his application of the spectroscope to astronomical problems, and especially for his investigations of the proper motions of the nebulae, and the physical constitution of the rings of the planet Saturn, by the use of that instrument.
Page 56 - Charles, he startled at the assertion of the fixed stars' places being false in the catalogue ; said, with some vehemence, " He must have them anew observed, examined, and corrected, for the use of his seamen ;" and further (when it was urged to him how necessary it was to have a good stock of observations taken for correcting the motions of the moon and planets), with the same earnestness,
Page 56 - Whereas, in order to the finding out of the longitude of places for perfecting navigation and astronomy...
Page 14 - Fourier3 maintained that the atmosphere acts like the glass of a hot-house, because it lets through the light rays of the sun but retains the dark rays from the ground. This idea was elaborated by Pouillet ; and Langley was by some of his researches led to the view, that "the temperature of the earth under direct sunshine, even though our atmosphere were present as now, would probably fall to -200° C., if that atmosphere did not possess the quality of selective...
Page 47 - Associate of that body in 1880 ; he was elected a Foreign Member of the Royal Society of London in 1840. He was an honorary member of the English, French, and German Chemical Societies; these associations, the second of which originated in Dumas' laboratory, elected him as a matter of course immediately after their institution.
Page 45 - Cambridge he attended the Lawrence Scientific School of Harvard University, from which he was graduated in 1858.
Page 113 - Director of the Lick Observatory, for his application of the spectroscope to astronomical problems, and especially for his investigations of the proper motions of the nebulae, and the physical constitution of the rings of the planet Saturn, by the use of that instrument.
Page 41 - A Brief Account of the Lick Observatory of the University of California ; prepared by Edward S.
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