The Project Gutenberg EBook of Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific

The Project Gutenberg EBook of Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, by Various This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org Title: Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific Volume 1 Author: Various Release Date: July 29, 2008 [EBook #26147] Language: English Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY OF THE PACIFIC *** P U B L I C AT I O N S o f t h e ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY OF THE PACIFIC. (Founded February 7, 1889.) VO L U M E I. 1889. SAN FRANCISCO: printed for the society. 1889. Produced by Susan Skinner, Nigel Blower, Jonathan Niehof and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net Transcriber’s notes: the following corrigenda provided in the original volume have been im-plemented in this text. Other minor corrections are detailed in the source code. CORRIGENDA. Page 39; Insert a star (*) to signify life-membership after the following names, viz: Charles Goodall, Horace L. Hill, D. O. Mills. Page 44; for 5×7 read 4×5. Page 59; Column “Star”; for W. H. Z. read W. M. Z. Page 71; add to Mr. Boulton’s address, (Box 2015, New York City). Page 71; for Centreville read Warm Springs. Page 71; for Terry read Torrey. TA B L E O F C O N T E N T S . Publications No. 1. (February 7, 1889). List of Officers pro tem. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Circular . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 List of Members . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 By-Laws . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Publications No. 2. (March 30, 1889). The Work of an Astronomical Society. Address by Edward S. Holden . . . . . . . . . 7 Minutes of the First Annual Meeting, March 30, 1889 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 List of Corresponding Observatories, Academies of Science, etc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 Officers of the Society . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 Notice to Members . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 Publications No. 3. (July 27, 1889). Plate of the Helical Nebulæ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 On the Helical Nebulæ. By Edward S. Holden . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 On the Orbit of Comet Barnard (1889, June 23). By A. O. Leuschner . . . . . . . . . 25 On the Occultations of Jupiter (visible in 1889) and on the Eclipses of Satellite IV. By Charles B. Hill . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 On Photographing the Corona in full Sunshine and on Photographs of the Moon in the Daytime. By James E. Keeler . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 Notices from the Lick Observatory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 Photographs of the Davidson Comet. By E. S. Holden . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 Spectrum of Davidson’s Comet. By James E. Keeler . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 New Double Stars. By S. W. Burnham . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29 Meridian Circle Observations of Victoria and Comparison Stars. By J. E. Schaeberle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 New Double Stars. By E. E. Barnard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 List of the Articles, etc., contributed to Scientific and other Journals by the Astro- nomers of the Lick Observatory since June 1, 1888. Compiled by Charles B. Hill . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31 i Minutes of the Meeting of the Board of Directors, held July 27, 1889 . . . . . . . . . . . 35 List of Corresponding Observatories, Academies of Science, etc. . . . . . . . . . . . 35 Action regarding the Comet Medal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 Amendment to Article VII of the By-Laws . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37 Minutes of the Meeting of the Society, July 27, 1889 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38 List of Members . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38 Note regarding Professor Tacchini’s Work on the Solar Eclipses of 1870, 1882, 1883, 1886 and 1887 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40 Telegram of Congratulation to Director Otto v. Struve . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40 The Comet Medal of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific founded by Hon. Joseph A. Donohoe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40 Rules governing its bestowal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41 Formal Acceptance of the gift of Mr. Donohoe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41 The Lick Observatory Eclipse Expedition (December 21, 1889), sent at the cost of Hon. C. F. Crocker . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42 List of Officers, etc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42 Publications No. 4. (September 28, 1889). On the Photographic Brightness of the Fixed Stars. By J. M. Schaeberle . . . . . . . 44 On the Establishment of a Standard Meridian Line for Santa Clara County, California. By J. E. Keeler . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55 Table of Azimuths and Elongations of Polaris for 1889 and 1890 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57 Occultations of Stars by the Moon. Observed by A. O. Leuschner . . . . . . . . . . . 59 Conjunction of Mars and Saturn (September 20, 1889). By W. E. Downs. . . . . . . . 60 A very remarkable Comet (Brooks, July 7, 1889). By E. E. Barnard . . . . . . . . . 61 Notices from the Lick Observatory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63 Photographing the Milky Way. By E. S. Holden . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63 Occultation of Jupiter, 1889, September 3 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63 Examination of Stellar Photographs. By E. S. Holden . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64 Review of the early numbers of the Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific [by Professor E. Schoenfeld] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64 Note on the Corona of January 1, 1889 [by Professor P. Tacchini] . . . . . . . . . 64 Zenographical Fragments [by A. Stanley Williams, F. R. A. S.]. Notice by E. S. Holden . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65 Accommodation for Visitors to the Observatory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65 American Equatorial Mountings in Berlin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66 Notes on Double Stars. By S. W. Burnham . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66 Notes on Stellar Spectra. By J. E. Keeler . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67 “An Improved Astronomical Mirror” . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68 Observations of the near approach of Mars and Saturn, September 19 1889. By E. E. Barnard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68 The Uses of Trails of Stars in Measurements of Position or of Brightness. By E. S. Holden . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69 Minutes of the Meeting of the Board of Directors, September 28, 1889 . . . . . . . . . . 71 Minutes of the Meeting of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, September 28, 1889 . 71 ii ... - tailieumienphi.vn