Word: meteors
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Observations on the meteor shower last Saturday evening and Sunday morning were made at the Harvard Observatory and at Blue Hill. The weather was not particularly favorable, although it was clear after midnight...
...brighter stars in this large region. Many thousand plates, covering the entire sky, have been taken in this way at the Cambridge and Arequipa stations of this observatory. As a result, numerous remarkable objects have been discovered. One of the latest is the spectrum of a meteor which has thus been photographed for the first time. Since it is impossible to foresee when the bright meteors will appear, or what path they will follow, a photograph will be obtained only when one happens to cross the field of the telescope. A number of trails of meteors have been obtained, both...
Next Saturday evening at the Harvard Observatory, the students in the astronomy classes will assist in making observations on the meteor shower, which will probably be visible at that time. During the evening, the meteors will appear to be coming from the eastern horizon; and towards Sunday morning they will radiate from a point a little to the southeast of the zenith, in the constellation of Leo. This point will rise about midnight. If the weather is favorable, photographs will be taken to determine the height above the surface of the earth at which the meteors first become visible...
...several years the Harvard Observatory has been engaged in photographing, both in Cambridge and Peru, the spectra of all stars above the eighth magnitude. Professor Pickering hoped when this work was undertaken that a meteor would sometime cross the field of one of the photographic prisms while taking the spectra, but this did not occur until recently...
Physical Geo. and Meteor...