Newcomb, Simon, 1835-1909, Holden, Edward Singleton, 1846-1914, joint author · New York, H. Holt · leaf 505
343 stars, but of thisspace 125 parts belong to the spheres inside of it : there is, there-fore, room for 218 stars between the spheres of radii 5 and 7. Herschel designates the several distances of these layers ofstars as orders ; the stars between spheres 1 and 3 are of the firstorder of… … Fig. 137.—orders of distance op stars. STRUCTURE OF THE HEAVENS. 487 Order of Distance. Number of Starsthere is Room for. Magnitude. Number of Starsof that Magnitude. 1 2 26 982183866028661,1781,538 1 23 456 7 1757 3 206 4 454 5 1,1616,103 6 7 6,146 8 The result of this comparison is, that, if the…
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