Word: arequipa
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...leading astronomers is wide-spread. Under his direction the Observatory greatly widened its scope, until it had built up a system of correspondence with observatories and private astronomers all over the world through which discoveries and observations were compared and verified. He established the Observatory's auxiliary station at Arequipa, Peru, and devised many new methods of astronomical photography...
...brightness of the stars has occupied a large part of the time of the Observatory for thirty years. In this time, more than two million measurements were made of some 80,000 stars. In carrying on this work, a stations has been maintained in the southern hemisphere, at Arequipa, Peru, and the stars in that portion of the heavens have been observed by the same system as that used here in the northern hemisphere. As a result of the work of these two stations, a scale of magnitudes has now been established and accepted by international consent...
...party will sail from Boston Thursday, April 24, stopping three days at the Panama Canal. They will then proceed down the west coast of South American, stopping, among other places, at the Harvard Observatory at Arequipa, Peru, and going as far south as Valparaizo. Here they will cross the Andes and proceed to Buenos Ayres. Following the east coast north, many stops will be made, the expedition arriving in Boston July...