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With the slightest magnifying this object splits up into two stars, of magnitudes four and seven, situated rather more than 40" apart. Next we shall need a rather low-power eyepiece and our largest aperture in order to examine a star cluster, No. 4173, which was especially admired by Sir William Herschel, who discovered that it was not, as Messier had supposed, a circular nebula.
HERSCHEL no longer looks for comets; but the French astronomers, MESSIER, MECHAIN, BOUVARD, and PONS find some. Last year, JEROME LALANDE deposited 600 francs in the hands of his notary, as a premium to stimulate the efforts of young observers. February 11, in continuation. In the spring of 1803, MECHAIN will leave Paris for the purpose of extending his meridian to the Balearic Islands.
Neison refers to two long straight streaks extending from Crozier towards Messier. BELLOT. A brilliant little ring-plain N.E. of Crozier. There is a small circular depression on the S. border, and a prominent crater on the W. side of the dark interior. On the S.S.E. is the curiously shaped enclosure Cook d, with very bright broad lofty walls and a fine central mountain.
Time is getting on. Where is it?" "Where is what?" the bewildered Charlot asked. "Why, this place," Valgrand answered irritably: "this rue Messier. Look it up in the directory." Valgrand stamped impatiently up and down the room while Charlot hurriedly turned over the pages of the directory, muttering the syllables at the top of each as he ran through them in alphabetical order.
The palace of Thermes, in the Rue de La Harpe, served as a shop for a cooper. On the platform of the octagonal tower of the Hotel de Cluny, the little shed of boards, which had served as an observatory to Messier, the naval astronomer under Louis XVI., was still to be seen. The Duchesse de Duras read to three or four friends her unpublished Ourika, in her boudoir furnished by X. in sky-blue satin.
MESSIER. The more westerly of a remarkable pair of bright craters, about 9 miles in diameter, standing in an isolated position in the Mare Foecunditatis just S. of the Equator.
For this dust to reach the Messier Channel, where we now are, it would have to surmount two chains of snowy mountains, six or seven thousand feet in height, and in many places hundreds of miles in width, and traverse a vast extent of country besides.
Roberts has been kind enough to send me copies of the photographs in question and sundry others illustrative of stellar evolution. Those representing the Great Nebulæ in Andromeda and Canum Venaticorum as well as 81 Messier are at once impressive and instructive illustrating as they do the genesis of nebulous rings round a central mass.
An inspection of one of the spiral nebulæ, as 51st or 99th Messier, at once shows that the outlying portions when they reach the nucleus, will form an equatorial belt moving round the common centre more rapidly than the rest. Thus the central parts will have small angular velocities, while there will be increasing angular velocities of parts increasingly remote from the centre.
It is the view that because we have got into a mess we must grow messier to suit it; that because we have taken a wrong turn some time ago we must go forward and not backwards; that because we have lost our way we must lose our map also; and because we have missed our ideal, we must forget it.
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