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Identifier: pacificgaselectr41913paci (find matches)
Title: Pacific Gas and Electric magazine
Year: 1909 (1900s)
Authors: Pacific Gas and Electric Company
Subjects: Pacific Gas and Electric Company Electric utilities Public utilities
Publisher: (San Francisco, Calif.) : Pacific Gas and Electric Co.
Contributing Library: San Francisco Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: San Francisco Public Library

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Looking down upon the Santa Clara Valley southern stars to or from the observer. Thesummit of the peak on which the Observatoryis situated is 1,000 feet above the level ofthe city of Santiago. The site is very satis-factory in that the atmospheric conditionsare favorable for the Observatorys line ofinvestigation; and incidentally, as I am told,the view of the Andes from that locationwould be difficult to equal. Climate, of course, plays an important partin astronomical experiment, and that in agreat measure accounts for the remarkablesuccess which has been achieved here and inSouth America. Professor Campbell tellsus that from the year 1 896 to last year, in-clusive, three nights a week, on a average,were available for observation purposes, andthat the same average is recorded from theChilean observatory ever since its foundationeight years ago. We are in a position to tell where anymember of the solar system was, is or will be,and we know when eclipses will take place, says Professor

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