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 334
ompo- The Fixed Stars 281 nents of a double star have a distinct motion with ref-erence to each other. In Herschels first paper on the subject, containedin the Philosophical Transactions for 1803, he remarksthat his observations distributed over a period of twenty-five years, and there recounted,… … & Cygni y Arietis y Andromeda & Serpentis EIGHT TYPICAL DOUBLE STAR SYSTEMS {As seen in an inverting telescope) combinations of two stars, intimately held together bythe bond of mutual attraction. These, then, are calledbinary stars, to distinguish them from such as are onlyoptically double…
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