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Identifier: officialproceedi04rail (find matches)
Title: Official proceedings
Year: 1901 (1900s)
Authors: Railway Club of Pittsburgh
Subjects: Railway Club of Pittsburgh Railroads
Publisher: Pittsburgh, Pa. : The Club
Contributing Library: Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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omenon from the time it was un-seen until the time it had come into the range of human vision. So stupendous is the distance of the stars that cataclysmsin the universe that have occurred a thousand years ago we arejust seeing now, although the light coming from them travels186,000 miles a second. It is utterly impossible for us to get aconception of the immensity of this great universe of ours. Before I tell you the story of the evolution of the universeI throw upon the screen the three instruments that are used inmodern astronomical research, as they have aided so much inthe solution of many of the mysteries heretofore totally un-solved. 228 Proceedings Railway Club of Pittsburgh. First, I show you the reflecting telescope, which is used forastronomical photography. This instrument is the one used byProf. Keeler, of the Lick observatory, and with which many ofthe pictures which I will show you have been made. The sec-ond is the spectroscope which, attached to the telescope, tells us
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THE GREAT NEBULA IN ORION. Photo by G. W. Ritchey, Yerkes Observatory. the story of the physical nature of the steller worlds. The thirdis the spectro-heliograph, which not only tells us of the physi-cal characteristics of the stellar worlds and particularly of our Building of a Universe. 229 own sun, but reveals to us what is going on in the elements ofwhich it is composed. With these three instruments many new chapters have beenadded to the history of astronomy. I throw upon the screen a picture of the great nebula inOrion. This picture was taken by the photographic process andthe camera was exposed to the sky about four hours. We see inthis beautiful nebula that which has no geometric form. Yousee the convolutions, the wonderful striations, the wisps andthe condensations, nevertheless it seems to be without formand void. This with many other nebulae in the heavens givesus a faint idea of how our worlds must have looked in theirprimordial stage. Some of these nebulae are very much l

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  • booksubject:Railway_Club_of_Pittsburgh
  • booksubject:Railroads
  • bookpublisher:Pittsburgh__Pa____The_Club
  • bookcontributor:Carnegie_Library_of_Pittsburgh
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  • bookleafnumber:381
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