The Adolfo Stahl lectures in astronomy, delivered in San Francisco, California, in 1916-17 and 1917-18, under the auspices of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific (1919)
Astronomical Society of the Pacific, Aitken, Robert Grant, 1864-1951 · San Francisco Stanford University Press · leaf 136
ring our wintermonths, when the Sun is south of it, and south of the equatorduring our summer months. The full Moon therefore rideshigh in the sky and gives us the most light in the winter whenwe have the least sunlight, and rides low in the sky in thesummer. In our latitudes this is not a matter… … PLATE XVn. The Moox, 19d. 12.5h. Old. Photograph taken zvith the 36-iiich refractor. Aug. 30, 1893, by A. L.Coltnii and C. D. Ferriiie. The Moon 81 Moon to the last quarter every month during the long polarnight. Next, the ancients learned that the Moons distance from theEarth varies by a sHght…
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