 | Ormsby MacKnight Mitchel - 1848 - 320 pages
...the Shield of Sobieski. RA 18 h. 1 1 m. Decl. S. 16° 16'. THIS is an irresolvable nebula, figured by Sir John Herschel, during his residence at the Cape of Good Hope. Its favorable position, as seen in southern latitudes, enabled Herschel to trace the outline of the... | |
 | Ormsby MacKnight Mitchel - 1851 - 302 pages
...hypothesis. PLATE III. — NEBULA IN THE SHIELT OF SOBIESKI. — This is an irresolvable nebula, figured by Sir John Herschel, during his residence at the Cape of Good Hope. Its favourable position, as seen in southern latitudes, enabled Herschel to trace the outline of the... | |
 | Ormsby MacKnight Mitchel - 1851 - 302 pages
...hypothesis. PLATE III. — NEBULA IN THE SHIELD OF SOBIESKI. — This is an irresolvable nebula, figured by Sir John Herschel, during his residence at the Cape of Good Hope. Its favourable position, as seen in southern latitudes, enabled Herschel to trace the outline of the... | |
 | John Brocklesby - 1855 - 321 pages
...five, hundred, and this number was increased to about four thousand by the splendid discoveries made by Sir John Herschel, during his residence at the Cape of Good Hope. The distance of the nebulas from the earth is vast beyond conception. The ring nebula in the Lyre is... | |
 | Ormsby MacKnight Mitchel - 1860
...hypothesis. PLATE III. — NEBXTLA IN THE SHIELD or SOBIESKI. — This i» an irresolvable nebula, figured by Sir John Herschel, during his residence at the Cape of Good Hope. Its favourable position, a* seen in southern latitudes, enabled Herschel to trace the outline of the... | |
 | George Smith, William Makepeace Thackeray - 1863
...communicating, and having its longer axis nearly in a meridian. According to the elaborate delineation made by Sir John Herschel during his residence at the Cape of Good Hope, of which an engraving is published in the " Results " of his Cape observations, both ends of this oval... | |
 | 1864
...communicating; and having its longer axis nearly in a meridian. According to the elaborate delineation made by Sir John Herschel, during his residence at the Cape of Good Hope, of which an engraving is published in the " Results " of his Cape observations, both ends of this oval... | |
 | 1865
...communicating ; and having its longer axis nearly in a meridian. According to the elaborate delineation made by Sir John Herschel, during his residence at the Cape of Good Hope, of which an engraving is published in the " Results " of his Cape observations, both ends of this oval... | |
 | William Thomas Brande, George William Cox - 1866
...recorded by the navigator Magellan, and named after him. These singular objects were carefully examined by Sir John Herschel during his residence at the Cape of Good Hope from 1834 to 1S38, and are minutely described in his Iltsults <;/ Astronomical Observations, &c. The... | |
 | William Thomas Brande, George William Cox - 1875
...recorded by the navigator Magellan, and named after him. These singular objects were carefully examined by Sir John Herschel during his residence at the Cape of Good Hope from 1834 to 1838, and are minutely described in his Results oj Astronomical Observations, &c. The... | |
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This is an irresolvable nebula, figured by Sir John Herschel, during his residence at the Cape of Good Hope. Its favourable position, as seen in southern latitudes, enabled Herschel to trace the outline of the nebula much farther than any preceding observer... 
