Brief biography and popular account of the unparalleled discoveries of T.J.J. See (1913)
Webb, W. L. (William Larkin), b. 1856 · Lynn, Mass. T.P. Nichols · leaf 156
ely faint; and the same was true of Hyperionin the system of Saturn, but by screening off the glare of the planet,Professor See was able to get an excellent series of measures, whenthese objects could scarcely be seen by any other astronomer inthe world, owing to the low southern declination of… … THE PLANET MERCURY.As glimpsed by T. J. J. See with the 26-inch refractor at Wash-ington, in June, 1901. It had long been known from photometric obser-vations that Mercury behaved like the Moon, flashing out with greatbrilliancy near opposition, but otherwise reflecting very little light. If…
See, Thomas Jefferson Jackson, 1866 · Astronomy
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