 | Ormsby MacKnight Mitchel - 1848 - 380 pagine
...the Shield of Sobieski. RA 18 h. 1 1 m. Decl. S. 16° 16'. THIS is an irresolvable nebula, figured by Sir John Herschel, during his residence at the Cape of Good Hope. Its favorable position, as seen in southern latitudes, enabled Herschel to trace the outline of the... | |
 | Ormsby MacKnight Mitchel - 1851 - 366 pagine
...hypothesis. PLATE III. — NEBULA IN THE SHIELT OF SOBIESKI. — This is an irresolvable nebula, figured by Sir John Herschel, during his residence at the Cape of Good Hope. Its favourable position, as seen in southern latitudes, enabled Herschel to trace the outline of the... | |
 | Ormsby MacKnight Mitchel - 1851 - 374 pagine
...hypothesis. PLATE III. — NEBULA IN THE SHIELD OF SOBIESKI. — This is an irresolvable nebula, figured by Sir John Herschel, during his residence at the Cape of Good Hope. Its favourable position, as seen in southern latitudes, enabled Herschel to trace the outline of the... | |
 | Ormsby MacKnight Mitchel - 1860 - 698 pagine
...hypothesis. PLATE III. — NEBXTLA IN THE SHIELD or SOBIESKI. — This i» an irresolvable nebula, figured by Sir John Herschel, during his residence at the Cape of Good Hope. Its favourable position, a* seen in southern latitudes, enabled Herschel to trace the outline of the... | |
 | 1864 - 382 pagine
...communicating; and having its longer axis nearly in a meridian. According to the elaborate delineation made by Sir John Herschel, during his residence at the Cape of Good Hope, of which an engraving is published in the " Results " of his Cape observations, both ends of this oval... | |
 | 1865 - 372 pagine
...communicating ; and having its longer axis nearly in a meridian. According to the elaborate delineation made by Sir John Herschel, during his residence at the Cape of Good Hope, of which an engraving is published in the " Results " of his Cape observations, both ends of this oval... | |
 | William Thomas Brande - 1866 - 968 pagine
...recorded by the navigator Magellan, and named after him. These singular objects were carefully examined by Sir John Herschel during his residence at the Cape of Good Hope from 1834 to 1S38, and are minutely described in his Iltsults <;/ Astronomical Observations, &c. The... | |
 | John Brocklesby - 1872 - 374 pagine
...NUMBER AND DISTANCE OF STELLAR CLUSTERS AND NEBULAS. About two thousand stellar clusters and nelwlce were observed by Sir William Herschel. In 1833 the...thousand by the splendid discoveries made by Sir John Ilerschel, during his residence at the Cape of Good Hope. The distance of the nebulae from the earth... | |
 | William Thomas Brande, George William Cox - 1875 - 968 pagine
...recorded by the navigator Magellan, and named after him. These singular objects were carefully examined by Sir John Herschel during his residence at the Cape of Good Hope from 1834 to 1838, and are minutely described in his Results oj Astronomical Observations, &c. The... | |
 | J. P. MACI. EAN. - 1879 - 258 pagine
...published in New York about forty years ago, and purported to be a series of discoveries made in the moon by Sir John Herschel, during his residence at the Cape of Good Hope. It is a well known fact among astronomers that, with a given-sized objeet-glass, the power of the telescope... | |
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This is an irresolvable nebula, figured by Sir John Herschel, during his residence at the Cape of Good Hope. Its favourable position, as seen in southern latitudes, enabled Herschel to trace the outline of the nebula much farther than any preceding observer... 
