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 320
ion attainable by thephotographic method does not displace the necessity for thelabors of the astronomer with the telescope alone. The long-tested methods of slow observation with meridian instruments The Fixed Stars 261 little doubt that this report of a new star is simplydue to a misunderstanding… … F. W. A. ARGELANDER (1799-1875) this class of observation. His famous Durchmusterung of thenorthern heavens embraces no less than 324,198 stars, set downwith some precision, both in catalogues and in a series of stellarcharts, which are a prime essential in all working observatories.In 1865 the…
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