A Photographic Atlas of Selected Regions of the Milky Way

Abstract

THIS beautiful atlas contains fifty photographs of Milky Way regions taken by Prof. E. E. Barnard with the Bruce telescope of the Yerkes Observatory about twenty years ago. A grant for its publication was made by the Carnegie Institution of Washington so long ago as 1907, and the delay in its appearance is due to Barnard being for some years after that date engaged on the reproduction of his earlier photographs of the Milky Way and of Comets, which form Vol. 11 of the Publications of the Lick Observatory; and to the fact that with such a devoted and assiduous observer the making of observations always had prior claim to the publication of results. That such was so is indeed fortunate for astronomy, as there have been very few observers so skilful as he, and what little has been lost owing to lateness in publication is a small price to pay for the continuation of his observational work. Thus the great observer died five years before the publication of this atlas, and it appears ably edited by Prof. Edwin B. Frost and Miss R. Calvert, the latter of whom assisted Prof. Barnard with it during his lifetime. Most of the details of the form of publication had been settled, and the descriptions of the fields written, by Barnard himself.

A Photographic Atlas of Selected Regions of the Milky Way.

Prof. Edward Emerson Barnard. Edwin B. Frost Mary R. Calvert. Part 1: Photographs and Descriptions. Pp. vi + 134 + 53 plates. Part 2: Charts and Tables. Pp. iv + 52 + 50 tables + 50 charts. (Washington, D.C.: Carnegie Institution, 1927.)