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...nearly $50,000, the decreasing rates of interest on standing investments calls for an additional sum of about $200,000 in order that the present income, received during the last two years, may be permanently established. The entire value of the equipment both in Cambridge and at the Arequipa station in Peru amounts only to $134,000, as compared with a corresponding value of $500,000 on the equipment at the Lick and Yerkes observatories more recently established in California. In addition to this handicap in financial matters, the department is much in need of a fire-proof Library building...
...photographic plate was taken of Eros at Arequipa, Penn, in April and the first of a long series in Cambridge was obtained in July. Owing to its great distance from the earth and consequent faintness a time exposure of two hours and a half was necessary. Plates are now being taken in the early evening, the middle of the night, and the early morning with time exposures of from one to five minutes only. The plates obtained in the early evening and early morning are carefully compared in order to determine the exact position of the planet. Tests for brightness...
...Jamaica that the work may be undertaken in the topics, a region better adapted for astronomical observations. It is especially hoped that some better photographs of the moon can be made than have been produced heretofore. If the work proves satisfactory the telescope will probably be sent to Arequipa, Peru, the Observatory's South American station...
...hundred and eighty-six photographs were taken with the Boyden telescope and 2301 with the Bache telescope. In all, 4392 photographs were taken at the Arequipa station. Several important discoveries were made with the Bruce photographic telescope, with which, during the year, in all, 693 photographs were taken. The most important is the finding of a new satellite to Saturn by Professor W. H. Pickering to which the name Phoebe has been given...
...completed, it will be tried first at Cambridge and afterward sent to Jamaica, where a site in the western part of the island suitable for an observatory was selected last year by Professor W. H. Pickering. After observations have been made there, the telescope will be removed to Arequipa, Peru...