Discussion of star places, 1847 - 1868
Scope and Contents
Correspondence on the position and identity of stars, variable motions of stars, computations of star's positions, lists of stars and comparisons of stars and nebula. There are brief papers by G.P. Bond on a companion star to Sirius and a list of new nebulae and star clusters, 1847-1863, as observed at Harvard Observatory, U.S.A. There are also French circulars on nebulae, a list of stars observed on the Great Trigonometrical Survey of India, and French ephemerides of fundamental stars. The correspondents include C.P. Smyth, R. Grant, J.R. Hind, T.H. Safford, E.J. Stone, B.A. Gould, A.V. Auwers, E. Dunkin, A.R. Clarke, A.S. Herschel, J.F.W. Herschel, N.R. Pogson, J. Baxendell, W. Huggins, G.G. Stokes, W. Lassell and the Earl of Rosse.
Dates
- Creation: 1847 - 1868
Creator
- From the Management Group: Royal Greenwich Observatory (Organization)
Conditions Governing Access
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Extent
1 archive box(es) (1 box)
Language of Materials
English
French
Former / Other Reference
B5/10
Finding aid date
2006-01-06 11:35:40+00:00
Subject
- Herschel, John Frederick William, Sir, 1792 - 1871 (Knight, astronomer) (Person)
- Stone, Edward James, 1831 - 1897 (astronomer) (Person)
- Auwers, Arthur Julius Georg Friedrich von, 1838 - 1915 (astronomer) (Person)
- Baxendell, Joseph, 1815 - 1887 (meteorologist and astronomer) (Person)
- Dunkin, Edwin, 1821 - 1898 (astronomer) (Person)
- Gould, Benjamin Apthorp, 1824 - 1896 (astronomer) (Person)
- Hind, John Russell, 1823 - 1895 (astronomer) (Person)
- Huggins, William, Sir, 1824 - 1910 (Knight, astronomer) (Person)
- Lassell, William, 1799 - 1880 (astronomer) (Person)
- Parsons, William, 1800 - 1867 (3rd Earl of Rosse, astronomer) (Person)
- Pogson, Norman Robert, 1829 - 1891 (astronomer) (Person)
- Smyth, Charles Piazzi, 1819 - 1900 (astronomer) (Person)
- Stokes, George Gabriel, Sir, 1819 - 1903 (1st Baronet, physicist) (Person)
- Bond, George Phillips, 1825 - 1865 (astronomer) (Person)
- Grant, Robert, 1814 - 1892 (astronomer) (Person)
- Clarke, Alexander Ross, 1828 - 1914 (Fellow of Royal Society) (Person)
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