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...photographs of the heavens in the region where the new star appeared. These photographs were taken before and after its appearance and include negatives made from the spectrum of the star. When the spectrum first appeared, it did not show the star to be different from those of the Orion type, but the change that took place later brought the spectrum into similarity with that of a typical new star. Photographic astronomy has not in the case of previous new stars, shown this change. The star has decreased in brillanoy, until now it is barely visible to the naked...
...made here are, conducted with regard-first to the meteorology of the globe, with particular reference to cloudiness and other phenomena affecting the choice of astronomical stations; secondly, to to the fundamental principles of astronomical photography; thirdly, to the great nebulous region comprising a large part of the constellation Orion; fourthly, to the best form of standard light; and finally to other details of quantitative photometric work...
...boyden fund has been continued in Pern California and Cambridge in the last of which places Professor Pickering took personal charge of the work, making observations on Mars and experimenting in astronomical photography. Researches were made on the meteorology of the earth and on the nebulous region in Orion...
...Institute of Technology, Mr. Abram G. Clark of Cambridge, the well-known manufacturer of large telescopes, was present, and gave an account of his recent visit to the observatory, telling about the views of the rings of Saturn and his discovery of a new star in the traperium of Orion...
...first observations have been taken through the Lick telescope and were very satisfactory. The eight rings of Saturn were clearly defined and a new star was discovered in Orion...