The Trouvelot astronomical drawings manual
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During a study of the heavens, which has now been continued formore than fifteen years, I have made a large number of observationspertaining to physical astronomy, together with many originaldrawings representing the most interesting celestial objects andphenomena.With a view to making these observations more generally useful,I was led, some years ago, to prepare, from this collection of drawings,a series of astronomical pictures, which were intended to representthe celestial phenomena as they appear to a trained eye and toan experienced draughtsman through the great modern telescopes,provided...
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- THE TROUVELOT ASTRONOMICAL DRAWINGS MANUAL
- E. L. TROUVELOT,
- FORMERLY CONNECTED WITH THE OBSERVATORY OF HARVARD COLLEGE; FELLOW OF THE AMERICAN ACADEMY OF ARTS AND SCIENCES, AND MEMBER OF THE SELENO-GRAPHICAL SOCIETY OF GREAT BRITAIN; IN CHARGE OF A GOVERNMENT EXPEDITION TO OBSERVE THE TOTAL SOLAR ECLIPSE OF 1878.
- NEW YORK CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS
- INTRODUCTION
- CONTENTS
- THE SUN
- THE AURORAL AND ZODIACAL LIGHTS
- THE MOON
- THE PLANETS
- COMETS AND METEORS
- THE STELLAR SYSTEMS
- LIST OF PLATES[1] PLATE
- GENERAL REMARKS ON THE SUN
- THE ENVELOPING LAYERS OF THE SUN
- STRUCTURE OF THE PHOTOSPHERE AND CHROMOSPHERE
- THE FACULÆ
- SUN-SPOTS AND VEILED SPOTS PLATE I
- SOLAR PROTUBERANCES PLATE II
- TOTAL ECLIPSE OF THE SUN PLATE III
- THE AURORA BOREALIS PLATE IV
- THE ZODIACAL LIGHT PLATE V
- THE MOON PLATE VI
- ECLIPSES OF THE MOON PLATE VII
- THE PLANETS
- THE PLANET MARS PLATE VIII
- THE PLANET JUPITER PLATE IX
- THE PLANET SATURN PLATE X
- COMETS PLATE XI
- SHOOTING-STARS AND METEORS PLATE XII
- THE MILKY-WAY OR GALAXY PLATE XIII
- THE STAR-CLUSTERS PLATE XIV
- THE NEBULÆ PLATE XV
- APPENDIX KEY TO THE PLATES
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