A beginner's star-book; an easy guide to the stars and to the astronomical uses of the opera-glass, the field-glass and the telescope (1912)
Murphy, Edgar Gardner, 1869-1913 · New York, London, G.P. Putnam's sons · leaf 124
factor which involves or affects it as an image. The impressions to which I have referredare, therefore: 1. The impression that the world into which you are peering is dark, gloomy, andtractless. This impression is the more intensified, the higher the power you employ. 2. The impression, after you… … TELESCOPE—MODEL D Equatorial Mounting no a Beginner0 Star^BooR circles or areas covered by your instrument are pitifully small. The smallness of the fieldyou command makes it hard to find the object you are seeking. The field becomes smallerand this task of finding things becomes harder with the…
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