Popular Astronomy, Volume 57Goodsell Observatory of Carleton College, 1949 |
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Page 147
... bright , a bright grass green in color and lasted for more than a second , one and a half seconds would be about right . It began with fair intensity , grew bright , stayed bright and then disappeared rapidly but not instantaneously ...
... bright , a bright grass green in color and lasted for more than a second , one and a half seconds would be about right . It began with fair intensity , grew bright , stayed bright and then disappeared rapidly but not instantaneously ...
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... bright moon . Maskelyne offers no explanation of the event . He remarks only that it was probably " of the same nature with that of the light seen of late years in the dark part of the moon by our ingenious and indefatigable astronomer ...
... bright moon . Maskelyne offers no explanation of the event . He remarks only that it was probably " of the same nature with that of the light seen of late years in the dark part of the moon by our ingenious and indefatigable astronomer ...
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... bright star . " It would in all probability move at an apparent velocity so high that it would cross the entire face of the moon in a matter of a few minutes . Moreover , it would , if it were in line with the crescent moon , be ...
... bright star . " It would in all probability move at an apparent velocity so high that it would cross the entire face of the moon in a matter of a few minutes . Moreover , it would , if it were in line with the crescent moon , be ...
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INDEX TO ILLUSTRATIONS | 48 |
Astrolabes Photographs of 159 160 | 159 |
e Orbit of 464 | 178 |
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