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 312
ss wedge was recorded at The Fixed Stars 259 (in the reign of the Emperor Theodosius) : but fromthe accounts given by the ecclesiastical historians, it is which the stars light was extinguished. Professor Pickeringhas successfully employed a type of his own devising, andnamed the meridian… … PHOTOGRAPHIC EQUATORIAL TELESCOPE{Built by Sir Howard Grubb for the Royal Observatory atCape Town- The lower tube is the photographic telescope,with a 13-inck object-glass; the -upper one is an optical orguiding telescope with a clinch objective. The tubes are 12feet long. Similar instruments by…
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