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Astronomy for students and general readers (1880)

Newcomb, Simon, 1835-1909, Holden, Edward Singleton, 1846-1914, joint author · New York : H. Holt and company · leaf 507

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343 stars, but of thisspace 135 parts belong to the spheres inside of it: there is, there-fore, room for 318 stars between the spheres of radii 5 and 7. Hbrschel designates the several distances of these layers ofstars as orders ; the stars between spheres 1 and 3 are of the firstorder of distance,… … Pig. 137.—okdeks of distakce of stars. 8TBUCTUBM OF THE HEAVENS. 487 Order of Distance. Number of Starsthere is Hoom for. Magnitude. Number of Starsof that Magnitude. 1 2 26 982188866028661,1781,588 1234567 1757 3 206 4 454 5 1,1610,1036,146 6 7 8 The lesult of this comparison is, that, if the…

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