Word: arequipa
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...view is in this way increased from two degrees square to ten degrees square, and a photograph is obtained of the spectra of all the brighter stars in this large region. Many thousand plates, covering the entire sky, have been taken in this way at the Cambridge and Arequipa stations of this observatory. As a result, numerous remarkable objects have been discovered. One of the latest is the spectrum of a meteor which has thus been photographed for the first time. Since it is impossible to foresee when the bright meteors will appear, or what path they will follow...
Assistant Professor of Astronomy S. I. Bailey has been absent from Cambridge since 1893, at the observing station at Arequipa, Peru...
...station at Arequipa, Peru, where the Bruce telescope was moved last winter, is now under the personal direction of Professor Bailey. The difficulties met with in setting up the instrument, owing to its great size and weight, have been finally overcome. Professor Bailey has photographed a large number of excellent stellar charts of which some very fine specimens have been received in Cambridge. The main station at Arequipa controls many meteorological posts in the neighboring country. The most important of these is situated on the summit of the volcano El Misti, 19200 feet above the level...
...exhibition of the American Society of Natural History now being held in the Museum of Natural History, Central Park and 81st street, New York City. The collection comprises about twenty-five 11x14 photographs, partly of celestial objects and partly of views from the observatories of Cambridge and Arequipa...
...with great pleasure that a report from Arequipa, was received at the Observatory, stating that the Bruce photographic telescope, the most powerful of its kind in the world, had arrived in safety. This telescope was sent to Peru some time ago and considerable anxiety has been felt as to its safe arrival, as it was rather a dangerous voyage from here to Arequipa...