Word: arequipa
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...inch reflecting telescope for use in the College Observatory and the branch Observatory at Arequipa, Peru, is now in process of construction and will probably be ready for use next fall. The telescope is to be used chiefly for photographic work and will be more powerful than any other now used at the Observatory for this purpose. When the Instrument is completed it will be temporally mounted in the yard of the Observatory. Later it will be sent to the branch station in Peru...
...station in Arequipa, Peru, 3,919 photographs have been obtained by Professor Bailey with the 13-inch Boyden telescope. The meridian photometer has also been sent to Peru, for the observation of the Planet Eros. With the Bruce Photographic telescope, 6,174 plates have been exposed, including a large number of exposures of asteroids, several of which are probably new. One of these asteroids has a greater eccentricity than any one hitherto known, and has been named Odlo, after the Peruvian goddess. A photograph of Eros was obtained nearly a month before it was observed elsewhere after its conjunction with...
Computations have been made at the Observatory on a new asteroid discovered last summer at Arequipa, Peru. These computations prove that its daily motion around the sun is very large, showing it to be nearer the sun than any asteroid previously studied. It has been found to have a greater ellipticity than any other similar body...
...were made of the stars were taken fifty years ago by Professor George R. Bond, with wet plates. Seventeen years ago Professor Pickering began obtaining appropriations for further experiments in the same direction, and successive good results have made the investigations very large. Photographic telescopes have been employed at Arequipa, Peru, and at Cambridge, and in the former place two tons of glass in the form of photographic plates have been used. The tremendous library, as it may be called, which has thus been formed is used to supplement the discoveries made in other observatories. In all this there must...
...Peruvian Government has offered to give Harvard the land needed for extending the University observatory at Arequipa. In addition, the instruments and equipment for the observatory will be allowed to enter the country free of duty. The President of Peru was led to this action by reading a report by Professor Pickering, showing the need of a large telescope in South America, where the dryness of the atmosphere makes it possible to do the work of a forty-inch telescope with one of twenty inches. The report also showed that the field for astronomical work in the Southern hemisphere...