Word: mazelspoort
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Dates: during 1928-1928
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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...
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