Popular Astronomy, Volume 51Goodsell Observatory of Carleton College, 1943 |
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... Harvard University , amateur astronomer and patron of astronomy , died in Cambridge at the age of 82. It was Professor Jewett who sponsored Harvard's 24-33 - inch Schmidt - type telescope ( which inspired the Tonanzintla instrument ) ...
... Harvard University , amateur astronomer and patron of astronomy , died in Cambridge at the age of 82. It was Professor Jewett who sponsored Harvard's 24-33 - inch Schmidt - type telescope ( which inspired the Tonanzintla instrument ) ...
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... Harvard , after the war , to celebrate the centennial of some phase of the early development of the Harvard Observatory . Some historical research had revealed . the fact that any year up to 1950 will be entirely valid , since something ...
... Harvard , after the war , to celebrate the centennial of some phase of the early development of the Harvard Observatory . Some historical research had revealed . the fact that any year up to 1950 will be entirely valid , since something ...
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... Harvard magnitudes themselves though given to two decimal places , are not claimed to be accurate to the nearest 0.01 magnitude . It does not seem likely that better results can be obtained by such comparative methods . The actual ...
... Harvard magnitudes themselves though given to two decimal places , are not claimed to be accurate to the nearest 0.01 magnitude . It does not seem likely that better results can be obtained by such comparative methods . The actual ...
Contents
Frontispiece Plate 1 The Moon | 9 |
The Moon Wm W Payne | 16 |
Concerted Observation of the Aurora M A Veeder | 22 |
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