File:Science-gossip (1896) (14767497964).jpg

Identifier: sciencegossip03lond (find matches)
Title: Science-gossip
Year: 1894 (1890s)
Authors:
Subjects: Natural history Science
Publisher: London : Simpkin Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co. Berlin : R. Friedländer & Sohn
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: American Museum of Natural History Library

View Book Page: Book Viewer
About This Book: Catalog Entry
View All Images: All Images From Book
Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book.

Text Appearing Before Image:
sts wasworthy of great eulogy. The expedition had its drawbacks however. Thefirst was shortness of funds. The time for prepara-tion was also somewhat limited. On arriving atMalya Karmakoulj-, poor meteorological conditionsmade it very difficult to get the true position of theplace or to adjust the instruments, besides provinga discouraging factor to the observers themselves. On the day of the eclipse itself, at two oclock thesky was quite cloudy, but towards four the clouds for observing contacts with. M. Hansky, withPrince Galitzine, arranged the meteorologicalobservatory. The equatorial, not having been constructed forso high a latitude, had to be fitted up in an abnormalposition, the consequence being that the clock didnot work regularly, which becomes painfully appa-rent in some of the plates. The programme arranged was to observe the firstand fourth contacts with four telescopes and thesecond and third with two. During the time oftotality M. Kostinsky was to take five photographs
Text Appearing After Image:
Fig. 2.—ToT.O, Eclipse of the Sun, Augu.st 9TH. 1S56. began to disperse. During the eclipse the skv wastolerablj serene, though at first light cirrus cloudswere over the sun. and make their presence manifest -in some of the photographs. It was resolved that, whether the eclipse wassuccessfully observed or not, the expedition shouldnot be fruitless. Amongst the instruments takenwere an equatorial with a 4-in. objective correctedfor photography, a photographic camera with a2j-in. objective attached to the tube of the equato-rial, an ordinary photographic camera, a reflectingcircle, two box chronometers, and four telescopes with the refractor, and M. Hansky three with thecamera fitted on to the tube. M. Hansky also pro-posed to draw the corona during totality. PrinceGalitzine proposed to photograph the corona withthe ordinary camera, as also the spectrum with thespectrograph. M. Backlund was to take observa-tions around the sun and to give signals, whilst M.Jacobson had to beat the sec

Note About Images