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...most interesting of the studies to be assisted by the Foundation during the coming year is that of Dr. W. G. Luyten G. '24, assistant professor of Astronomy in the University. Dr. Luyten will go to Mazelspoort, South Africa, with the aim of taking a large number of photographs of the southern sky with the Bruce telescope in the Harvard Observatory there. His object will be to compare these plates with similar plates taken between 1896 and 1906, to obtain information concerning the numbers, velocities and intrinsic brightnesses of the stars in the neighborhood...
Astronomy 20d. Research. Stellar Statistics. Assistant Professor Luyten...
Astronomy 20d. Research, Stellar Statistics. Assistant Professor Luyten...
...University Observatory, which produces 10,000 plates a year, is now under the direction of Professor Harlowe Shapley. W. J. Luyten is carrying out the study of moving stars. Two stations for observation are maintained--one at Cambridge for the study of the northern hemisphere and one at Bloemfontein, South Africa, for the study of the southern hemisphere...
...This afternoon in the Harvard College Observatory Building A at 4.30 o'clock Dr. W. J. Luyten will hold an Astronomical Colloquium. His lecture open to University men only, will be on "Statistical Astronomy...