Report of the Committee of the Overseers of Harvard College Appointed to Visit the Observatory: 1861 (1862) |
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51 Messier achromatic American Academy APPOINTED TO VISIT asteroid Astronomer Royal BOSTON Bowditch bright California Boundary Survey Cambridgeport charts comet of July curved tail dark channels DAVID SEARS detected Dip Circle Director discovery distance Elements by T. H. enterprise purely scientific Ephemeris Equatorial equatorial mounting G. P. Bond H. P. Tuttle HARVARD COLLEGE APPOINTED hazy filaments instrument JARED SPARKS labor LL.D Lord Rosse Lord Rosse's figure magnitude motion of Sirius naked eye name of Maia nebula of Orion notice nucleus object object-glass observations Observatory of Harvard operations greatly impairs optical power orbit OVERSEERS OF HARVARD pier position PRESS OF GEO principal ray proper motion R. C. WINTHROP RAND & AVERY right ascension Royal Astronomical Society Royal Observatory spiral structure stars straight ray SUBMITTED FEBRUARY 20 suffi surface sustain the Obser T. H. Safford telescope tion Titania trast with similar vatory venerable Josiah Quincy VISIT THE OBSERVATORY whirl formation