Stars and telescopes; a hand-book of popular astronomy founded on the 9th ed. of Lynn's Celestial motions (1901)
Todd, David P. (David Peck), 1855-1939, Lynn, William Thynne, 1835-1911 · Boston, Little, Brown · leaf 291
THE PLEIADES — CLUSTER AND NEBULA(From photographs by the Brothers Henry of the Paris Observatory) 238 Stars and Telescopes splendid is Orion, partly in the northern and partly inthe southern celestial hemisphere. The three brightstars in a straight line above the middle of it (com- … l III. GREAT NEBULA IN ORION {Photographedby Roberts, ±th February iSSq. Exposure, 3 hours 25 minutes.This nebula is faintly visible to the naked eye surrounding the middle starin the Sword of Orion. See /•age zdo. Among the most successful observersof this magnificent object, before the days of…
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