Other suns than ours. A series of essays on suns - old, young, and dead, with other science gleanings, two essays on whist and correspondence with Sir John Herschel (1887)
Proctor, Richard A. (Richard Anthony), 1837-1888 · London, New York, Longmans, Green · leaf 440
APPENDIX. 413 According to my theory, the proper motions of the stars in Crux should be larger towards the a end of the cross than towards the other. I try the experiment, though without putting very much faith in it—as the proper motions assigned to southern stars seem to require revision. One… … Fig. F.—Proper motions (in 36,000 Ftg. G.—Illustrating the years) of stars in the Southern Cross. effects of our sun being in the midst of a stream of stars. I did not mean to suggest that the sun is altogether out of the plane rich in stars within which the Milky Way streams have (according to my…
Astronomy · Whist
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