Howe, Herbert A. (Herbert Alonzo), 1858-1926 · Meadville, Penna., Flood and Vincent · leaf 332
Nebula of Orion Photographed. Exposure, nine hours. coming from the nebula. Galileo has left no record of it,much as he scoured the heavens. Cysatus, who wasfollowing a comet in 1618, first came across it, and com-pared the comet with it. As telescopes improved, thestar which it envelops was split… … The Trape-zium. 326 A Study of the Sky. ula the appearance of a ghostly bat of prodigious size.The spectroscope then revealed the bright-line spectrumof glowing gas, though portions of the nebula havesquare corners and bright ribs and dark vacuities.Finally photography scored a signal triumph by…
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