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 357
nHerschel continuing his fathers work at the Cape of GoodHope. The average number of stars in a field was asfollows: — In the Galaxy itself 122 In galactic latitude 150 30^ 3°° i7f 45° i°i 6o° 6\ 75° 4f 900 41 From this very rapid increase in the number of the stellarhosts, as we approach nearer… … THE NEBULAE AND CLUSTERS OK THE NORTHERN HEAVENS (WATERS) {Milky Way according to Boeddicker, the dots in it marking star clusters. The dotsabove and bcloiv it indicate nebulae, most numerous in regions remote from the Galaxy) here enter into; but we may summarize as follows our knowl-edge of this…
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