Word: sky
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...occur tomorrow night. At 10.17 the moon will enter the umbra of the earth's shadow, and at 12.19 the total eclipse will begin; this will end at 1.48 and at 3.50 the moon will again be clear of the earth's shadow. By photographs the light of the sky will be measured during the eclipse, and the light of the moon eclipsed compared with the moon's light unobscured. The observers will expose also several plates during the eclipse to discover if any hitherto undetected moon may be found as satellite to the moon of the earth...
...valuable new photographic instrument has lately been purchased by the Observatory. It is known as a Ross-Geiss lens and will be used for photographing and charting the sky. It was constructed especially for this purpose, and will cover a larger field than any other instrument at the Observatory. Owing to its wide range it will now be possible to chart the sky every night, whereas previously this has been possible only three times a month, and consequently many phenomena have been unobserved. The instrument has already been put up and is now ready...
...being torn down so as to form two large circular halls. The second story contains very few windows and is too dimly lighted to serve as an exhibition room. In order to remedy this defect it has been decided to take up the entire third floor and to put sky lights in the roof of the building...
...spectators began to fill the stands at 12.45 and the seats were practically all filled at 1.30. The sky was dark and leaden, and wet snow flurries fell at intervals. The field was slippery as a result of the early morning sleet. The Harvard stand was full of color, and the enthusiasm ran high long before the time of the game...
Sunday evening a famous phenoenon, the conjunction of Saturn, Jupiter and Venus, will be observed. These planets will be situated in the southwestern part of the sky and will be visible soon after sunset...