Lessons in astronomy including uranography. A brief intoductory course without mathematics (1896)
Young, Charles A. (Charles Augustus), 1834-1908 · Boston, London, Ginn and company · leaf 257
rd allpass through this point, though they do not usually startthere. Meteors which appear near the radiant are apparentlystationary, or describe paths which are very short, while thosein the more distant regions of the sky pursue long courses.The radiant keeps its place among the stars sensibly… … Fig. 68. — The Meteoric Radiant in Leo, Nov. 13, 1866. Leonids, or meteors whose radiant is the constellation ofLeo; the Andromedes (or Bielids) ; the Perseids ; theLyrids, etc. Fig. 68 represents the tracks of a large number of the Leonids of1866, showing the positions of the radiant near Zeta…
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