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Professor A. L. Bailey G '88, senior member of the staff of the Harvard College Observatory and Phillips Professor of Astronomy since 1912, who has been in charge of the station at Arequipa, Peru, for the past two years, will speak tonight at the college observatory from 7.30 to 9 o'clock on "Harvard Observatories in Chile and Peru." Admission is by ticket only...
...just been installed on the edge of the nitrate desert of Northern Chile to test the atmospheric conditions in that locality, and to watch and photograph the southern stars that cannot be studied at the existing stations of the Observatory located at Cambridge, at Mandeville, Jamaica, and at Arequipa, Peru...
...more than thirty years the University has maintained a southern station in order that its series of celestial photographs might cover the whole sky. After the investigation of 1889 of various sites in Peru and Chile, the branch observatory was located in the Andes Mountains near Arequipa, at an altitude of eight thousand feet. Throughout a large part of the year the astronomical conditions in this high altitude are excellent, and the astronomers working at Arequipa have secured more than a hundred thousand photographs of southern stars. During the Peruvian summer; however, in the months from December to March...
Professor Solon Irving Bailey '88, senior member of the staff of the Harvard College Observatory and Phillips Professor of Astronomy since 1912, who has been in charge of the station at Arequipa, Peru, for the last two years, has been given the degree of Doctor of Science by the University of San Agustin at Arequipa, Peru, and at the same time was made Honorary Professor of Astronomy at the University...
...Professor Bailey was sent to Peru to investigate conditions there in order to determine the best location for a southern station for the Harvard College Observatory. His examination of the west coast of South America, from the equator to southern Chile, resulted in the selection of Arequipa. This station, because of its southern location, its numerous telescopes, and its high altitude of 8000 feet is of considerable importance and supplies the major part of the material that is used in the astronomical investigations at the Harvard Observatory...