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The heavens above: a popular handbook of astronomy (1882)

Gillet, J. A. (Joseph Anthony), 1837-1908 · New York, Chicago, Potter, Ainsworth, & Co. · leaf 396

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Fig. 426. motion, as shown in Fig. 427 (see also Fig. 420). He pro-poses for this phenomenon the name of Star-Drift. n ^ … Fig. 427. 367. Motion of Stars along the Line of Sight. — A motionof a star in the direction of the line of sight would produceno displacement of the star that could be detected with the 370 ASTRONOMY, telescope; but it would cause a change in the briglitness ofthe star, which would become…

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