
Book contents
- Frontmatter
- SELECTION OF PHOTOGRAPHS OF STARS, STAR-CLUSTERS AND NEBULÆ TOGETHER WITH INFORMATION CONCERNING THE INSTRUMENTS AND THE METHODS EMPLOYED IN THE PURSUIT OF CELESTIAL PHOTOGRAPHY
- PREFACE
- ISAAC ROBERTS' OBSERVATORY, CROWBOROUGH HILL
- ISAAC ROBERTS' TELESCOPES
- Contents
- LIST OF THE PLATES
- LIST OF THE ABBREVIATIONS
- THE NEGATIVES
- ARRANGEMENT OF THE PHOTOGRAPHS
- EPOCH OF THE FIDUCIAL STARS (A.D. 1900)
- A TABLE FOR CONVERTING MEASUREMENTS IN RIGHT ASCENSIONS INTO INTERVALS OF TIME
- ILLUSTRATIONS OF THE METHOD FOR DETERMINING THE RIGHT ASCENSIONS AND DECLINATIONS OF THE STARS
- INTRODUCTION
- UTILITY OF THE PHOTOGRAPHIC CHARTS
- REFRACTORS AND REFLECTORS AS PHOTO-INSTRUMENTS
- REQUIREMENTS AND ADJUSTMENTS OF A REFLECTOR FOR CELESTIAL PHOTOGRAPHY
- COLLIMATION OF THE MIRROR
- ESSENTIALS OF A PHOTO-TELESCOPE
- METHOD FOR TESTING THE STABILITY OF A PHOTO-INSTRUMENT
- PHOTOGRAPHIC PLATES: THEIR EXPOSURES AND DEVELOPMENT
- DESCRIPTION OF THE PHOTOGRAPHS AND REFERENCES CONCERNING THEM: Pages 31-61
- DESCRIPTION OF THE PHOTOGRAPHS AND REFERENCES CONCERNING THEM: Pages 62-95
- DESCRIPTION OF THE PHOTOGRAPHS AND REFERENCES CONCERNING THEM: Pages 96-132
- DEDUCTIONS FROM THE PHOTOGRAPHS
SELECTION OF PHOTOGRAPHS OF STARS, STAR-CLUSTERS AND NEBULÆ TOGETHER WITH INFORMATION CONCERNING THE INSTRUMENTS AND THE METHODS EMPLOYED IN THE PURSUIT OF CELESTIAL PHOTOGRAPHY
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 November 2015
- Frontmatter
- SELECTION OF PHOTOGRAPHS OF STARS, STAR-CLUSTERS AND NEBULÆ TOGETHER WITH INFORMATION CONCERNING THE INSTRUMENTS AND THE METHODS EMPLOYED IN THE PURSUIT OF CELESTIAL PHOTOGRAPHY
- PREFACE
- ISAAC ROBERTS' OBSERVATORY, CROWBOROUGH HILL
- ISAAC ROBERTS' TELESCOPES
- Contents
- LIST OF THE PLATES
- LIST OF THE ABBREVIATIONS
- THE NEGATIVES
- ARRANGEMENT OF THE PHOTOGRAPHS
- EPOCH OF THE FIDUCIAL STARS (A.D. 1900)
- A TABLE FOR CONVERTING MEASUREMENTS IN RIGHT ASCENSIONS INTO INTERVALS OF TIME
- ILLUSTRATIONS OF THE METHOD FOR DETERMINING THE RIGHT ASCENSIONS AND DECLINATIONS OF THE STARS
- INTRODUCTION
- UTILITY OF THE PHOTOGRAPHIC CHARTS
- REFRACTORS AND REFLECTORS AS PHOTO-INSTRUMENTS
- REQUIREMENTS AND ADJUSTMENTS OF A REFLECTOR FOR CELESTIAL PHOTOGRAPHY
- COLLIMATION OF THE MIRROR
- ESSENTIALS OF A PHOTO-TELESCOPE
- METHOD FOR TESTING THE STABILITY OF A PHOTO-INSTRUMENT
- PHOTOGRAPHIC PLATES: THEIR EXPOSURES AND DEVELOPMENT
- DESCRIPTION OF THE PHOTOGRAPHS AND REFERENCES CONCERNING THEM: Pages 31-61
- DESCRIPTION OF THE PHOTOGRAPHS AND REFERENCES CONCERNING THEM: Pages 62-95
- DESCRIPTION OF THE PHOTOGRAPHS AND REFERENCES CONCERNING THEM: Pages 96-132
- DEDUCTIONS FROM THE PHOTOGRAPHS
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- Photographs of Stars, Star-Clusters and NebulaeTogether with Information Concerning the Instruments and the Methods Employed in the Pursuit of Celestial Photography, pp. 1 - 2Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2010First published in: 1893