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 97
or rose-colored protuberances, attentionhaving been first attracted to them during the eclipse famous observatory is illustrated on the opposite page; alsoits peculiarly mounted telescope below, with its oblong tubeand duplicate object-glass, which makes it possible to keep theinstrument pointed… … THE 12-INCH EQUATORIAL AT POTSDAM (The bent pier affords exceptional conven-ience of observation) Scale, i inch= 12 feet Also at Meudon, Paris, M. Janssev has had extraordinarysuccess in photographing the Suns surface in detail; its gran-ulation, sharply defined in his originals, is somewhat…
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