Word: stationed
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...telescopes used in carrying on this work are operated in small sheds placed in different parts of the grounds, but each is controlled by a central electrical station. By the use of a switch board one man can operate from this station as many of the instruments as he may desire. In order that the motion of the earth may not effect the relative position of the photographic telescope and the object, the instrument is moved on an axis parallel to the earth and regulated by clock work in such a way that the distance the earth moves...
...addition to these photographs now being taken in Cambridge, a large number of duplicate pictures are also being taken at the station in Peru. The Bruce telescope there in use is the largest photographic telescope in the world. These photographs are also to be preserved at the Cambridge astronomical library and by a comparison of the two it is hoped that, interesting and valuable conclusions will be reached...
...nearly $50,000, the decreasing rates of interest on standing investments calls for an additional sum of about $200,000 in order that the present income, received during the last two years, may be permanently established. The entire value of the equipment both in Cambridge and at the Arequipa station in Peru amounts only to $134,000, as compared with a corresponding value of $500,000 on the equipment at the Lick and Yerkes observatories more recently established in California. In addition to this handicap in financial matters, the department is much in need of a fire-proof Library building...
...year includes the record of the work with various instruments in Cambridge and at Arequipa. Twenty-one variable stars were found in addition to a new star in the constellation. Aquila, which makes the sixth "Nova" discovered at Harvard by means of photography. At the Blue Hill Station, apart from routine observations, the chief work has been the continued exploration of the air by kites--twenty-two flights being made. The average height of these was 8973 feet, and the greatest single height being 15,800 feet. This system of lifting self recording instruments into the free air, originated...
These observations at the Observatory will continue until about the first of March when it is supposed that the planet will be too far distant for further observation in the United States. It is intended then to continue the investigation at the station in South America from which the first observations were carried on, and where, it is believed, the planet will be visible about a month longer than in any other part of the world. The final results of the work will not be officially computed until spring...