Celestial Objects for Common TelescopesLongmans, Green, 1873 - 343 páginas |
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Thomas William Webb. must be more magnified to shew their nature , and resolvable ones , to insulate their sparkling points . In most cases low powers have the advantage from the beauty and variety of their broad fields . The magnifiers ...
Thomas William Webb. must be more magnified to shew their nature , and resolvable ones , to insulate their sparkling points . In most cases low powers have the advantage from the beauty and variety of their broad fields . The magnifiers ...
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... resolvable , Sm : a little p Cor Caroli , 21 ° n . Ḥ 3474 ( M 63 ) . XIII 10m , N 42 ° 43 ' . Oval , not bright . saw it 9 ' or 10 ' long , and near 4 ' broad , with a very brilliant nucleus . An 8 m . star lies p , a minute triplet f ...
... resolvable , Sm : a little p Cor Caroli , 21 ° n . Ḥ 3474 ( M 63 ) . XIII 10m , N 42 ° 43 ' . Oval , not bright . saw it 9 ' or 10 ' long , and near 4 ' broad , with a very brilliant nucleus . An 8 m . star lies p , a minute triplet f ...
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... resolvable . H 12 m .: ' fine object .'- ' What an immensity of space is indicated ! such an arrangement be intended , as a bungling spouter of the hour insists , for a mere appendage to the speck of a world on which we dwell , to ...
... resolvable . H 12 m .: ' fine object .'- ' What an immensity of space is indicated ! such an arrangement be intended , as a bungling spouter of the hour insists , for a mere appendage to the speck of a world on which we dwell , to ...
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... resolvable ; intensely bright in centre . In H's reflectors , a brilliant cl . 7 ' or 8 ' diam . Buffham , with 9 in . spec . found stars brighter and more compressed than in M 13 , but blaze resolved by glimpses . Spectrum as M 13 ...
... resolvable ; intensely bright in centre . In H's reflectors , a brilliant cl . 7 ' or 8 ' diam . Buffham , with 9 in . spec . found stars brighter and more compressed than in M 13 , but blaze resolved by glimpses . Spectrum as M 13 ...
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... resolvable with 31 in . in a fine field and rich region , between 3o and 4 ° n p ẞ Cyg . Sm sees it as a globular cluster in a splendid field : ' H 11-14m . A strange contrast to the last . เ MONOCEROS . A constellation inconspicuous to ...
... resolvable with 31 in . in a fine field and rich region , between 3o and 4 ° n p ẞ Cyg . Sm sees it as a globular cluster in a splendid field : ' H 11-14m . A strange contrast to the last . เ MONOCEROS . A constellation inconspicuous to ...
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achr achromatic aperture Aquil astronomers atmosphere beautiful Binary bluish Boöt bright brighter brilliant Buffham Cassini centre Ceph Clusters colour comet constellation craters curious dark Dawes deep diameter disc Double Stars Drac dusky Earth eye-piece faint field flushed white globe greenish grey Herc Herschel Huggins interior Jupiter larger Lassell libration light lilac limb luminous lunar minute stars Moon motion naked eye nearly nebulæ noticed nucleus object object-glass observers orange pair pale blue pale white pale yellow photosphere Pisc planet proper motion Red Star reflector region remarkable Right Ascension ring ruddy satellites Schm Schr Schröter Schwabe Secchi seen shadow shew side silvery white smaller smalt solar sometimes spec spots streaks surface Taur telescope topaz Triple Virg visible xIxh xvih XVIII yellowish
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Página 345 - A NEW STAR ATLAS, for the Library, the School, and the Observatory, in Twelve Circular Maps (with Two Index Plates). Intended as a Companion to ' Webb's Celestial Objects for Common Telescopes.
Página 46 - Fairest of stars, last in the train of night, If better thou belong not to the dawn, Sure pledge of day, that crown'st the smiling morn With thy bright circlet, praise Him in thy sphere, While day arises, that sweet hour of prime.
Página 182 - Lift up your eyes on high, and behold who hath created these things, that bringeth out their host by number; he calleth them all by names by the greatness of his might, for that he is strong in power; not one faileth.
Página 345 - Why didn't somebody teach me the constellations, too, and make me at home in the starry heavens which are always overhead, and which I don't half know to this day?
Página 30 - I have said, he spent to satisfy himself; six more years to satisfy, and still thirteen more to convince, mankind. For thirty years never has the Sun exhibited his disc above the horizon of Dessau without being confronted by Schwabe's imperturbable telescope, and that appears to have happened, on an average, about 300 days a year.
Página 65 - Webb makes the following remarks on the rills:—"These most singular furrows pass chiefly through levels, intersect craters (proving a more recent date), reappear beyond obstructing mountains, as though carried through by a tunnel, and commence and terminate with little reference to any conspicuous feature of the neighbourhood.