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 342
ius; and the disturbing compan-ion was afterward detected as a small star near it,visible only with a powerful telescope. Procyon, theprincipal star in Canis Minor, is also subject to a simi-lar irregularity of proper motion, and one which wouldseem to result from orbital motion round a… … W. R. DAWES (1799-1868) 56 More than 10,000 double stars are now known, measured,and catalogued, a number only reached by the faithful enthu-siasm of many gifted astronomers — chief among them theStruves, father and son,Dawes, Professor Schiapa-relli, Baron Uembowski,and Professor Burn ham.Few…
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