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Page 1236 of 1245

  • Arrangement of the Plates

  • Isaac Roberts
  • Book:
    Photographs of Stars, Star-Clusters and Nebulae
    Published online:
    05 July 2011
    Print publication:
    31 October 2010, pp 17-17
    First published in:
    1899

  • Summary

    The plates are arranged in classes or groups so as to indicate apparent physical relationship between them, and the Right Ascensions are, as far as practicable, given in the order of time within each group.

    The edge next to the printed heading on each plate is the south, and the lower edge the north; the right is the following, and the left the preceding edge.

    The scales of the photographs, which are given in the letterpress, are such that by eye alignments of the stars, without the application of measuring instruments, changes which have taken place in their positions or in the structures of the nebulosities, if these changes should not be less than about five seconds of arc in extent, could be detected by comparing corresponding dual plates in this simple manner. The examination and comparison of stars, both as regards their positions and magnitudes, could thus be made in a single day though they should number several thousands on the dual photographs.

    Besides this alignment method, measurements by scale and compasses, or by a réseau on glass or other transparent substance, or by a rectangular L-shaped metal rule divided into millimètres on both limbs, or by the superposition of the plates upon each other, are obvious methods available for detecting changes in the position angles and magnitudes of the stars shown on the photographs.

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