Sidereal Chromatics: Being a Re-Print, with Additions from the Bedford Cycle of Celestial Objects and its Hartwell Continuation on the Colours of Multiple Stars - Brossura

Smyth, William Henry

 
9781108015172: Sidereal Chromatics: Being a Re-Print, with Additions from the Bedford Cycle of Celestial Objects and its Hartwell Continuation on the Colours of Multiple Stars

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This major achievement of nineteenth-century astronomy offered the most precise analysis of the colours of double stars yet recorded.

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A major achievement of nineteenth-century astronomy, Admiral William Henry Smyth's Sidereal Chromatics (1864) presented the most precise analysis of the colours of double stars yet recorded. Detailed observations by Smyth and a range of correspondents, together with his famous colour chart, make this a landmark work of amateur astronomy.

Contenuti

Introductory letter; 1. A re-print, with additions, of the remarks on the colours of double stars contained in the third chapter of the Cycle of Celestial Objects, under the title of 'A glance at the sidereal heavens'; 2. The colours of double stars continued: being a re-print of the seventh chapter of the Speculum Hartwellianum, with additions, and a proposed diagram of colours; Appendix.

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