 It is not easy for language to convey a full impression of the beauty and sublimity of the spectacle which this nebula offers, as it enters the field of view of a telescope fixed in Right Ascension, by the diurnal motion, ushered in as it is by so glorious...  Outlines of Astronomy - Page 514by John Frederick William Herschel - 1869 - 753 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Almanacs, English - 1859 - 634 pages
...spectacle which this nebula offers as it enters the field of view of a telescope, ushered in as it is by FO glorious and innumerable a procession of stars, to which it forms a sort of climax." The nebula covers an area of fully on paye 51.) IL от OL AJVTTKRU miu, •n. мооя ЖЮ Ж 1Г... | |
 | American periodicals - 1870 - 878 pages
...sublimity of the spectacle which this nebula offers, as it enters the field of view of the telescope, ushered in as it is by so glorious and innumerable a procession of stars." When Sir John Herschel wrote thus, there lay in the very heart of that amazing nebula a fixed star... | |
 | Mary Somerville - Physical sciences - 1849 - 568 pages
...convey a full impression of the beauty and sublimity of the spectacle it offers when viewed in a sweep, ushered in as it is by so glorious and innumerable...procession of stars, to which it forms a sort of climax, justifying expressions which, though I find them written in my journal in the excitement of the moment,... | |
 | Christianity - 1850 - 556 pages
...sublimity of the spectacle which this nebula offers, as it enters the field of view of a telescope fixed in Right Ascension, by the diurnal motion, ushered...but without any traceable connexion between them.' — Pp. 610, 611. We will conclude our extracts with a description of the Magellanic clouds : — '... | |
 | Christianity - 1850 - 626 pages
...sublimity of the spectacle which this nebula offers, as it enters the field of view of a telescope fixed in Right Ascension, by the diurnal motion, ushered...parallel, but without any traceable connexion between them.'—Pp. 610, 611. We will conclude our extracts with a description of the Magellanic clouds:—... | |
 | 1850 - 602 pages
...sublimity of the spectacle which this nebula offers, as it enters the field of view of a telescope fixed in Right Ascension, by the diurnal motion, ushered...heavens otherwise full of interest. One other bright aud very remarkably formed nebula of considerable magnitude precedes it nearly on the same parallel,... | |
 | William Arthur Darby - 1864 - 150 pages
...sublimity of the spectacle which this nebula offers, as it enters the field of view of the telescope, ushered in as it is by so glorious and innumerable...procession of stars, to which it forms a sort of climax." At London, in lat. 51° 30', a zone of 38° of the southern heavens, below the equinoctial, is visible... | |
 | 1867 - 864 pages
...sublimity ol the spectacle which this nebula offers, as it enters the field of view of a telescope fixed in right ascension by the diurnal motion, ushered...part of the heavens otherwise full of interest."* In Herschel's figures, the open space has somewhat the form of a dumb-bell ; but, according to F. Abbott,... | |
 | George Frederick Chambers - Astronomy - 1867 - 888 pages
...sublimity of the spectacle which this nebula offers, as it enters the field of the telescope (fixed in RA) by the diurnal motion, ushered in as it is by so glorious...procession of stars, to which it forms a sort of climax n." Some recent observations on a point of great importance concerning this nebula will be alluded... | |
 | Edward Isidore Sears - 1868 - 444 pages
...sublimity of the spectacle which this nebula offers, as it enters the field of view of a telescope fixed in right ascension by the diurnal motion, ushered...part of the heavens otherwise full of interest."* In Herschel's figures, the open space has somewhat the form of a dumb-bell ; but, according to F. Abbott,... | |
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