Word: meridian
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Joseph Robbins '95 died of typhoid fever Friday, at his home, after a four weeks' illness. His funeral will take place this (Monday) afternoon, at his home, 430 Meridian St., East Boston...
...lately devised an atteachment to a photographic telescope of such a nature that eight plates, eight by ten inches each, can be exposed in succession without disturbing the telescope. The telescope is regulated by clock-work and is designed to photograph all the bright stars that cross the meridian during the night. This instrument is much more powerful than the one of similar construction which has been in use at the Observatory during the last few years...
...large number of observations have also been made with the meridian photometer to determine the variation of light in stars suspected of variability...
...Besides this labor, a large amount of observation is done there, several instruments being kept in constant use. The largest of these are the fifteen-inch and six-inch equatorial telescopes, the eight-inch transit circle, the eleven-inch Draper photographic telescope, the eight-inch photographic telescope, and the meridian photometer...
...electric lights, which seriously interfere with the observation of faint objects, prove an advantage in one way. They render visible faint clouds, which are carefully looked for every few minutes when the meridian photometer is in use. As the lights are below the clouds instead of above them, the latter become conspicuous even when too faint to be seen in the moonlight...