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 256
isibleon the opposite side of the Sun the following day. Althoughit had passed within 300,000 miles of the solar surface, stillthere was no appreciable acceleration due to a supposed resist-ing medium ; and Dr Kreutz, who discussed the observationsof its position, found that it is moving in a very… … gales comet photographed at the lick observatory, 3d May 1894 {By Professor Barnard with the 6 in. WMard lens, exposure z\ hours. The long star-trails indicate an tmusually rapid motion of the cornet among the stars. Thecome?s tail was about io° long, and the original plate showed its tendericy to…
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