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Inventor of the camera, the late Bernhard Schmidt of Germany's Hamburg-Bergedorf Observatory first described the device in 1931, but with uncooperative vagueness unusual in a scientist. U.S. astronomers-mostly amateurs-grasped Schmidt's hints, figured out how his lens, reflector and film must have been designed and assembled. When they had cleared up details in several experimental models, major U.S. observatories began building larger Schmidts. The biggest (24-36 inch) was dedicated last fortnight at Cleveland's Warner & Swasey Observatory, and others are nearing completion this week at Harvard, Mt. Palomar, Tonantzintla, Mexico...
Astronomers at the Harvard Observatory reported today that the Wachmann Nova, an exploding star discovered in January by Dr. A. A. Wachmann of the Bergedorf Observatory, Germany, is probably a "slow nova," of which only one example has previously been found...
...cablegram, received yesterday at the Harvard College Observatory from the Central Bureau of Astronomical Telegrams at Copenhagen, announces the discovery of a moving object in the heavens by Dr. Walter Baade of the Hamburg Observatory at Bergedorf, Germany. It has not yet been discovered what the object is, since it is extremely small, being of the tenth magnitude. The object appears to be moving extremely rapidly, having a mean daily motion eastward of 4 minutes, 56 seconds, and 40 minutes of are south. According to Dr. Baade, the object when first sighted was in right ascension, 21 hours, 5 minutes...
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