twenty-six-inch

Updated: May 5, 2025

The components of alpha^1 are of magnitudes four and eight and a half, distance 44", p. 220°. With the Washington twenty-six-inch telescope a third star of magnitude fourteen has been found at a distance of 40", p. 182°. In alpha^2 the magnitudes of the components are three and ten and a half, distance 7.4", p. 150°. The smaller star has a companion of the twelfth or thirteenth magnitude, distance 1.2", p. 240°. This, of course, is hopelessly beyond our reach.

Garrett Putman Serviss - Pleasures of the telescope: An Illustrated Guide for Amateur Astronomers and a Popular: Description of the Chief Wonders of the Heavens for General: Readers

It is estimated that the Yerkes telescope will gather three times as much light as the twenty-three-inch instrument of the Princeton Observatory. It surpasses in the same respect the twenty-six-inch telescope at the National Observatory in the ratio of two and three-eighths to one.

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