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...watch will be kept at the Observatory tonight and the succeeding nights of the week for the shower of Leonids which is expected to occur within a few days. The photographic apparatus is adjusted by electricity so that the cameras are continuously exposed to the same portion of the sky. Several other instruments for determining the velocity and angular projection of the meteors have been mounted and are ready to be operated at any moment. It is thought that tomorrow night will be the time for the appearance of the meteors this year, although no definite forecast can be made...
Preparations have been made to photograph from the University Observatory the shower of meteorites which is expected to occur this week. In 1833 and 1867 the meteoric displays were of extraordinary brilliance; in the fall of 1899 it was expected that a shower as extraordinary as in those two years would be visible, and although to unusual display appeared, astronomers look again this year for an exceptionally brilliant shower. Those marked display seem to occur after periods roughly averaging about thirty-three years. November 13 is the day believed the most likely date for the display this fall...
...dressing-room and shower-baths in the Union, opposite the Freshman billiard-room, are now ready for use. The fee for bathing is ten cents, for which towels and soap will be furnished at the office...
...photographs taken at the Observatory during the recent showers of Leonids have now been thoroughly examined and classified. About a hundred photographs were taken, and, considering the size of the shower, which numbered only about four hundred and fifty Leonids in all, the number of successful photographs was remarkably large. On each of two plates there were three trails and a single distinct trail was found on each of twelve others. It will now be possible to locate the radiant from which the Leonids proceed, by tracing back the trails photographed on the plates and determining the point at which...
...Saturday and Sunday evenings no Leonids were observed and it is thought that the shower is past for the present year. The shower this year is probably the last for thirty-three years, although it is possible that next year a small shower may be visible. The color of the Leonids was a faint green. Three dozen photographs were taken during the night, but they were not very successful, as the Leonids were much fainter and of shorter duration than on the preceding evening. In all about seven dozen photographs were made and although they have not as yet been...