Popular Astronomy, Volume 57Goodsell Observatory of Carleton College, 1949 |
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Page 291
... close association with the brighter Venus , which will pass less than a quarter degree to the south on July 30 . Uranus . While Uranus will be rather close to the sun for convenient ob- servation in the morning sky , a close conjunction ...
... close association with the brighter Venus , which will pass less than a quarter degree to the south on July 30 . Uranus . While Uranus will be rather close to the sun for convenient ob- servation in the morning sky , a close conjunction ...
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... close to the earth . On the evenings of June 28 and 30 he took two more photographs so that he would have enough to determine the object's path , or orbit , in the sky . The three plates were turned over to Dr. Seth B. Nicholson and Dr ...
... close to the earth . On the evenings of June 28 and 30 he took two more photographs so that he would have enough to determine the object's path , or orbit , in the sky . The three plates were turned over to Dr. Seth B. Nicholson and Dr ...
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... close discrimination in the interpretation of observations , and in it Moore was preeminent . The circumstances of Moore's work brought him into contact with prob- lems of a widely varied character , in the development of which he ...
... close discrimination in the interpretation of observations , and in it Moore was preeminent . The circumstances of Moore's work brought him into contact with prob- lems of a widely varied character , in the development of which he ...
Contents
INDEX TO ILLUSTRATIONS | 48 |
Astrolabes Photographs of 159 160 | 159 |
e Orbit of 464 | 178 |
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