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THIS short monograph is a reprint of a lecture given by Dr. Kostersitz before the Vienna Photographic Society. The author describes in a somewhat general way the results that have been obtained by applying the camera to the end of a telescope and turning it towards the heavens. We are thus introduced to the appearance of the general features of the sun in and out of an eclipse, and a brief reference to the planets and asteroids as shown us by photography. Meteor photography is more fully described, and the author here gives two illustrations showing trails as photographed by him. The method of determining the relative brightness of stars by photographing them slightly out of focus is described, and a few words are written about the photography of the Milky Way. The illustrations, which are numerous and good, are chiefly from Scheiner's “Photographie der Gestirne,” there being two excellent heliogravures showing the nebula of Orion and Barnard's Milky Way.
Die Photographic im Dienste der Himmelskunde.
Von Dr. Karl Kostersitz. Pp. 53. (Wien: Carl Gerold's Sohn, 1900.)
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Die Photographic im Dienste der Himmelskunde . Nature 63, 324 (1901). https://doi.org/10.1038/063324a0
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