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...members of the staff are occupied full time in war service. The making of photographs of the sun, stars, nebulae, and galaxies is maintained at a rate of 80 per cent of normal, however. Several thousand photographs a year are made at the stations in Cambridge, Oak Ridge, and Bloomfontein...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CENSORSHIP FORMS DIFFICULTY FOR OBSERVATORY MESSAGES | 4/4/1944 | See Source »

...reference to the communications between Cambridge and the big Harvard observatory at Bloomfontein, South Africa, Shapley emphasized the fact that the astronomers must take great care with the language of their radio messages...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CENSORSHIP FORMS DIFFICULTY FOR OBSERVATORY MESSAGES | 4/4/1944 | See Source »

...Bloomfontein Observatory reports the Paraskevopoulos comet to be in the constellation of Ara. It is 17 hours, 14 minutes right ascension, declination 49 degree south. The Cordoba Observatory reports the object is moving rapidly south and east...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Scientific Scrapbook | 1/27/1941 | See Source »

...catalogue contains descriptions of 7,889 galaxies in the Horologium area, almost all of them hitherto unknown, and nearly all of them fainter than the fifteenth magnitude. It was compiled from a series of long exposure photographs taken with the Bruce telescope at the University's southern observatory in Bloomfontein, South Africa...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: New Book of Star Galaxies, Largest in Existence, Furnishes Excellent Evidence of Island Universes | 10/24/1935 | See Source »

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