 | Smithsonian Institution. Board of Regents - 1903 - 902 pages
...spectroscope. No spectrum such as I had expected! A single bright line only! At first I suspected some displacement of the prism and that I was looking at...more than momentary; then the true interpretation Hashed upon me. The light of the nebula was monochromatic, and so, unlike any other light I had as... | |
 | William Marshall Watts - 1904 - 414 pages
...spectroscope. No spectrum such as I expected ! A single bright line only ! At first I suspected some displacement of the prism, and that I was looking...at a reflection of the illuminated slit from one of FIG. 70. — Ring nebula in Lyra. (From Morgan's " Advanced Physiography.") its faces. This thought... | |
 | Francis Rolt-Wheeler - 1909 - 358 pages
...spectroscope. No spectrum such as I had expected ! A single bright line only ! At first I suspected some displacement of the prism and that I was looking at...prismatic examination, could not be extended out to form a complte spectrum. After passing through the two prisms it remained concentrated into a single bright... | |
 | Astronomical Society of the Pacific - 1910 - 316 pages
...spectroscope. No spectrum such as I expected ! A single bright line only ! At first I suspected some displacement of the prism, and that I was looking...prismatic examination, could not be extended out to fonn a complete spectrum. After passing through the two prisms it remained concentrated into a . single... | |
 | 1927 - 466 pages
...as I expected. A single bright line only! At first I suspected some displacement of the prism . . . The light of the nebula was monochromatic and so,...not be extended out to form a complete spectrum.* Hugg'ins thought at the time that he had solved the riddle of the nebula? and that they all consisted... | |
 | David Malin, Paul Murdin - 1984 - 214 pages
...f I looked into the spectroscope. No spectrum such as I expected! A single bright line only! . . . The light of the nebula was monochromatic, and so,...could not be extended out to form a complete spectrum . . . The riddle of the nebulae was solved. The answer, which had come to us in the light itself, read:... | |
 | Henry C. King - 2003 - 484 pages
...spectrum such as I expected! A single bright line only! At first I suspected some displacement of the a86 prism, and that I was looking at a reflection of the...then the true interpretation flashed upon me. The riddle of the nebolae wo solved. The 1nswer, whlch h1d COIN; tO US in the light itself, read: Not an... | |
 | Fred Watson - 2004 - 368 pages
...spectroscope. No spectrum such as I expected! A single bright line only! At first I suspected some displacement of the prism, and that I was looking...more than momentary; then the true interpretation (lashed upon me. The light of the nebula was monochromatic [ie an emission line] . . . The riddle of... | |
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I looked into the spectroscope. No spectrum such as I expected! A single bright line only! At first I suspected some displacement of the prism, and that I was looking at a reflection of the illuminated slit from one of its faces. This thought was scarcely... 