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Students volunteering from Astronomy 1 and the Harvard Observatory will spend Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday nights observing and recording the Loenid meteor showers which appear annually at this time. Weather hazards and the variable nature of meteors make the success of the expeditions problematical...
...Meteor Showers" will be the subject of a talk to be given at "Open Night" this evening at the Harvard Observatory by Fletcher Watson, Jr., instructor in Astronomy. Weather permitting, the guests will be allowed to observe the skys with the telescope. At the last meeting attention was focused upon Saturn, the moon, the Pleiades, and one of the brighter stars in the constellation of Taurus...
...King Edward sent a snuff box of blue and gold enamel with his miniature on it. The Kaiser sent a bracelet set with a miniature of himself, a smaller twin of the one he had given me for christening the Meteor. The only difference was in the uniform that he had on, and that the gold was lighter and the diamonds around the miniature smaller in the one that I got for getting married. The present from the King of Italy was a mosaic table, so large and heavy that I have never been able...
...Open Nights" at the Observatory, which are sponsored by the Bond Astronomical Club for the purpose of acquainting the public with astral phenomena, will this year be four in number. On Tuesday, November 7. Fletcher Watson. Jr., will discuss "Meteor Showers": on Thursday, November 9. "The Planets" will be the subject of Loring B. Andrews '26, instructor in Astronomy; and on Monday, November 13. Dr. F.L. Whipple will end the series with a talk on "Comets...
stars, less than 10 light years away from the earth (a light year is about 6,000,000,000 miles), illuminates the Century of Progress Exhibition each evening. An automatic lecture on the Perseoid meteor shower which can be seen every August when the earth passes through the certain point in her orbit, will follow later in the evening. The meteors are called Perseoids, because they appear to come from the direction of the constellation, Perseus, which forms with Andromeda, an over lasting dramatic picture in the skies. In November, the earth passes through another belt and is bombarded...