Word: star
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Director Swift, of the Warner Observatory, Rochester, N. Y., at 7 o'clock last evening discovered a bright telescopic comet about 2 1/4 north of the star Beta, in constellation Pegasus, having a tail about half a degree long, and slow eastward motion; about R. A. 22h. 50m., about N. Dec. 29. This is the first comet of the year, and promises to be a conspicuous object in the western...
...Rerdell continued his testimony in the star-route trial yesterday, much damaging evidence against the Dorseys being elicited...
...young ladies no doubt thousands of the sex will endeavor to attain a title just to see how they would look in the robes. This will make education fashionable, but will the women be contented to wear the same gown day after day without a change of style? - [Star...
...star-route trial yesterday Rerdell, one of the defendants, turned state's evidence, retracted his plea of not guilty, pleaded guilty, and testified at length in behalf of the government...
...recent issue of the well-known English astronomical periodical, the Observatory, Mr. A. M. W. Downing of Greenwich reviews a paper lately published in the memoirs of the American academy by Prof. W. A. Rogers of Cambridge, upon the "Harvard College Observatory Catalogue of Stars for 1875." The article by Prof. Rogers is a comparison of the catalogue with the fundamental systems of Anwers, Safford, Boss and Newcomb. This comparison, according to Mr. Downing, shows the excellence of the Harvard College Observatory star places, and goes far to justify the great relative weight which is assigned to them by American...