Star-land; being talks with young people about the wonders of the heavens (1899)
Ball, Robert Stawell, Sir, 1840- [from old catalog] · Boston and London, Ginn & company · leaf 341
maymention a celebrated pair of these objects which lies inthe constellation of Perseus. The sight of them in agreat telescope is so imposing that no one who is fit to 328 STAR-LAND. look through a telescope could resist a shout of wonderand admiration when first they burst on his view. Butthere… … Fig. 83. — Globular Cluster iu the Centaur. be, they have dwindled down to extremely small pointsof light. A homely illustration may serve to show theappearance which a globular cluster presents in a goodtelescope. I take a pepper-castor and on a sheet ofwhite paper I begin to shake out the pepper…
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