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Experiments are now being conducted at the Observatory preparatory to observing the total eclipse which will occur on May 28. The eclipse will be visible in Georgia, where a temporary station will be secured, and photographs of the eclipse, surrounding stars, and any planets revolving inside the orbit of Mercury will be taken under the direction of Professor W. H. Pickering. The sun will be obscured for one minute and a half, and it is hoped that during this time a new planet may be discovered. Pictures of that part of the sky where the eclipse is to occur...
Professor William Pickering is now trying to find the orbit and the future position of Phoebe, the ninth satellite of Saturn, which was discovered last year at the Harvard Observatory. Thirteen photographs have been taken, which show the satellite...
Comets move in various orbits. They are sometimes attracted into the solar system by Jupiter, and here they are subject to disintegration, unless some impulse sends them again out of the system. Many comets have a fixed orbit and period; their orbits are very eccentric...
...November meteors are irregularly bunched in their orbit, hence in successive years he number varies...
...Observatory, and about which most of us know so little, a good deal of attention has very lately been paid to the new comet. Although a large number of reports in regard to its probable course have appeared in the newspapers, few of them have any foundation. Its orbit is a very interesting mathematical puzzle. The observations taken here are now being worked upon and the results will be made known in a few days. The comet is almost directly overhead and can be seen with a field glass...