Inside Out Library

Stars and telescopes; a hand-book of popular astronomy, founded on the 9th ed. of Lynn's Celestial motions (1899)

Todd, David P. (David Peck), 1855-1939, Lynn, William Thynne, 1835-1911. Celestial motions · Boston, Little, Brown and company · leaf 237

An illustration from Stars and telescopes; a hand-book of popular astronomy, founded on the 9th ed. of Lynn's Celestial motions, 1899, leaf 237
helion at thatappearance, 12th March 1759, and at the next return,16th November 1835. According to Pontecoulant,it will be due at perihelion again in 1910. The dis-tance of Halleys comet from the Sun varies between0.58 and 35.3, in terms of the Earths mean distance ;that of Venus, expressed in the… … halleys comet IN 1835(Struve) Comets 183 time of visibility.89 Following are a few particularsabout the most remarkable comets which are movingin elliptical orbits of moderate eccentricity. 39 The trustworthy records of cometary apparitions throughout all past time are about 1000 in number, and the…

Astronomy

Internet Archive · Library of Congress · Public Domain Mark 1.0. Free to use for anything.

More pictures from Stars and telescopes; a hand-book of popular astronomy, founded on the 9th ed. of Lynn's Celestial motions

More like this