 | Astronomy - 1849 - 964 pages
...powerful enough to enable us to decide whether or not the spot was really the satellite. "On the 2 8th of January, 1848, during the transit of the shadows...smaller than its shadow in the proportion of 3 to ;, not duskish simply, but quite black like the shadows. On the nth of March it was again seen dark... | |
 | Thomas William Webb - Astronomy - 1859 - 274 pages
...shadows of I and III were both in transit, III itself "was seen with the great refractor" * (Bond's) " under very beautiful definition, as a black spot between...duskish simply, but quite black like the shadows." Hartnup at Liverpool has also seen IV " only a few shades lighter than the shadow." Sometimes these... | |
 | Science - 1862 - 558 pages
...— The 3rd satellite itself was seen with the great refractor" (of nearly fifteen inches aperture) " under very beautiful definition, as a black spot between the two shadows" (of I. and III.), "and not to be distinguished from them except by the place it occupied. It was smaller... | |
 | Science - 1862 - 552 pages
...28.— The 3rd satellite itself was seen with the great refractor" (of nearly fifteen inches aperture) " under very beautiful definition, as a black spot between the two shadows" (of I. and III.), " and not to be distinguished from them except by the place it occupied. It was smaller... | |
 | Thomas William Webb - 1873 - 414 pages
...shadows of I and III were both in transit, III itself ' was seen with the great refractor ' f (Bond's) ' under very beautiful definition, as a black spot between the two shadows, arid not to be distinguished from them except by the place it occupied. It was smaller than its shadow... | |
 | Thomas William Webb - Astronomy - 1904 - 268 pages
...shadows of I and III were both in transit, III itself ' was seen with the great refractor'3 (Bond's) 'under very beautiful definition, as a black spot...from them except by the place it occupied. It was 1 In 1785 aud 1786 Schr. repeatedly saw round black spots traversing Jupiter rapidly, like shadows... | |
 | English periodicals - 1849 - 588 pages
...but not powerful enough to enable us to decide whether or not the spot was really the satellite. " On the 28th of January, 1848, during the transit of...duskish simply, but quite black like the shadows. On the llth of March it was again seen dark on the disc, smaller than its shadow. " On the 18th of March we... | |
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On the 28th of January, 1848, during the transit of the shadows of the first and third satellites, the third satellite itself was seen with the great refractor under very beautiful definition, as a black spot between the two shadows, and not to be distinguished... 