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 267
with a power-ful telescope, or to study a photograph taken with a largemodern reflector. It is hopeless to attempt description, justas many able astronomers have found it hopeless to try toportray all of its features by even the most careful drawings. I have called it a nebula, but that term is… … PLATE XLII. Vacant Lanes and Nebula in Taurus. Plwfographed by E. E. Barnard zvifh the \0-incIi Bnicc telescope, Jan. 9.1907, 5j/2 hours exposure. News fro.m the Stars 161 consists of gases shining by inherent Hght, but whether thisHght is due to intense heat or to some other cause it has…
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