Astronomy and Astro-physics, Volume 13Goodsell Observatory, 1894 |
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absorption line angle appear ASTRONOMY AND ASTRO-PHYSICS atmosphere Auriga band body bright lines carbon catalogue chromosphere cloud comet component corona curve dark lines Decl determined diameter disc displacement distance double stars E. E. Barnard eclipse equator equatorial error exposure faculæ faint give grating Harvard College Observatory Huggins hydrogen lines inches instrument intensity June Jupiter latitude Lick Observatory light line of sight Lyræ magnetic magnitude Mars maximum means measures meridian method Moon nearly nebula nebular lines nebulosity Nova object observations Observatory obtained orbit Orion parallax period phenomena photographs photosphere Pickering planet plate polar position prism probably Professor prominences proper motion refractor region right ascension rotation S. W. Burnham satellite screw seen Sept slit solar spectra spectroheliograph spectroscope spectrum spots stars surface telescope temperature tion Variable Stars velocity visible Vogel wave-lengths waves
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Página 680 - ... the nature and cause of the geminations have for the most part put in operation only the laws of inorganic nature. Thus, the gemination is supposed to be due either to the effects of light in the atmosphere of Mars, or to optical illusions produced by vapors in various manners, or to glacial phenomena of a perpetual winter, to which it is known all the planets will be condemned, or to double cracks in its surface, or to single cracks of which the images are doubled by the effect of smoke issuing...
Página 848 - It presents in an inexpensive form, considering its great amount of matter, with freshness, owing to its weekly issue, and with a...
Página 597 - ... flood, which at every revolution of Mars inundates the northern polar region at the melting of the snow. Let us now add that this inundation is spread out to a great distance by means of a network of canals, perhaps constituting the principal mechanism (if not the only one) by which water (and with it organic life) may be diffused over the arid surface of the planet.
Página 581 - Verrier incident of thirty-five years ago that to-day they are mostly divided into two great parties, one of whom holds that the parallax can be best determined from a combination of the constant of aberration with the velocity of light, and the other believes only in the results of heliometer measurements upon asteroids. By all means continue the heliometer measurements, and do everything possible to clear up the mystery which now surrounds the constant of aberration, but why ignore the work of...
Página 575 - Venus for determining the solar parallax. The idea of utilizing such transits for this purpose seems to have been vaguely conceived by James Gregory, or perhaps even by Horrocks, but Halley was the first to work it out completely, and long after his death his paper was mainly instrumental in inducing the governments of Europe to undertake the observations of the transits of Venus in 1761 and 1769, from which our first accurate knowledge of the sun's distance was obtained. Those who are not familiar...
Página 861 - THE SUN. By CA YOUNG. Ph. D., LL. D., Professor of Astronomy in the College of New Jersey. With numerous Illustrations. 12mo. Cloth, $2.00. " Professor Young is an authority on ' The Sun,' and writes from intimate knowledge.
Página 579 - ... group. Thus it appears that the method required for adjusting the solar parallax and its related constants is in all respects the same as that which has so long been used for adjusting systems of triangulation, and as the latter method was invented by astronomers, it is natural to inquire why they have not applied it to the fundamental problem of their own science. The reasons are various, but they may all be classed under two heads. First, an inveterate habit of overestimating the accuracy of...
Página 579 - ... affirm that it is rigorously so. The luminiferous ether was invented to account for the phenomena of light, and for two hundred years it was not suspected of having any other function. The emission theory postulated only the corpuscles which constitute light itself, but the undulatory theory fills all space with an imponderable substance possessing properties even more remarkable than those of ordinary matter, and to some of the acutest intellects the magnitude of this idea has proved an almost...
Página 187 - ... turned in that way had they been before scattered, because the force that acted on them, the attraction of Jupiter, would have scattered the group instead of giving us that single compact group through which we passed in 1872 and 1885 in the course of four or five hours, and the bulk of them even in two hours. "In 1872, the comet was something like 200,000,000 miles away from the bodies that we met as we passed through them on the 27th of November, giving us a brilliant shower. Thirteen years...
Página 580 - The theory of probability and uniform experience alike show that the limit of accuracy attainable with any instrument is soon reached; and yet we all know the fascination which continually lures us on in our efforts to get better results out of the familiar telescopes and circles which have constituted the standard equipment of observatories for nearly a century. Possibly these instruments may be capable of indicating somewhat smaller quantities than we have hitherto succeeded in measuring with them,...