Word: arequipa
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...first photograph of a star ever obtained was taken with the "incomparable" 15-inch telescope, starting anew in 1885 after the invention of the dry plate, the Harvard Collection of celestial photographs is the most complete in the whole world. Southern stars not visible in Cambridge were photographed in Arequipa, Peru, from 1891 to 1926, when the station was removed to Bloemfontein, South Africa...
...have rich veins awaiting the explorer. For instance a search is being made on Harvard plates for other galaxies than ours. These galaxies, far away from our own Milky Way system, are frequently of spiral shape, and can be readily detected by the careful observer. On photographs taken at Arequipa twenty-five years ago with the Bruce telescope, Miss Ames has found two thousand new galaxies...
...Galactic universe, 50,000 light years away. This center of our universe is in the Sagittarius-Scorpio region, the brightest part of the Milky Way, which is visible here in the summer sky but too low in the south to be seen in all its glory. In Arequipa, Peru, the region is overhead and is truly a remarkable sight in that transparent atmosphere...
...River in the Orange Free State. The mounting just completed is a fine specimen of the telescope maker's art. It is provided for the 24-inch Bruce photographic doublet which for thirty years has been in operation, with a rather inferior mounting, at the former Harvard station in Arequipa, Peru. The 24-inch Bruce has long been the Observatory's most powerful tool for studying southern stars and nebulae, and with its new modern mounting it will continue on two especially significant problems--first, the survey of the super-system of galaxies known as the spiral or extra-galactic...
...little pictures of the White Church of Arequipa, Peru, and the Churches of Cuautla in Mexico are fresh and charming, and the Canal View done in Venice recalls Corot's sketches of Rome. The Boy Reading and the Musicians suggest the full chi, aroscuro method of Velasquez. There is an interesting and spirited copy of the Olivarez of Velasquez. To emphasize Dr. Ross' relation to the great masters is certainly not to deny his originality but rather to praise his achievements which are rooted in a study of the best precedents of the past...