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THE Anuario for 1945 of the Madrid Observatory has been prepared on a plan similar to that of the preceding issues, with some slight modifications introduced in the year-book for 1944. Observations and records of solar activity during 1944 have continued, and the results, together with those made at the observatories of Valencia and Cartuja, have been sent to the International Bureau at Zurich. Time signals have been carried out, and photographs of comets and planets, occultations of stars by the moon and other notable phenomena have been included in the programme. Boletin Astrónomico, 2, No. 10, contains the results of observations of sunspots and prominences in 1938 and the positions of a number of comets observed in 1941 and 1942, while Bol. Ast., 3, No. 1 contains the results of solar observations made in 1939 and 1940, including also those made during the latter year at Valencia. Repairs were started in the Observatory, those to the astrographic pavilion being completed, and the installation of the instrument and the new cupola to house it will allow the renewal of observations. At the end of the year-book there is an interesting section containing 72 pages with the title "El Sistema Galáctico", by José María Torroja Menéndez. This provides a very useful summary of our knowledge of the galaxy.
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Astronomical Observatory of Madrid. Nature 155, 665–666 (1945). https://doi.org/10.1038/155665e0
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