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STARS

STELLAR ASTRONOMY in the Long Nineteenth Century.

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• General: See also ASTRONOMY:
  Études et Lectures sur l'Astronomie, Volume VI: Astronomie Sidérale by Camille Falmmarion [Paris: Gauthier-Villars, 1875]

• Type: MULTIPLE:
  • Über das farbige Licht der Doppelsterne und einiger anderer Gestirne des Himmels [1842] by Christian Doppler [Prague: KBGW, 1903]
  • Catalogue des Étoiles Doubles et Multiples en Mouvement Relatif Certain by Camille Flammarion [Paris: Gauthier-Villars, 1878]
  • Observations on Double Stars by Asaph Hall [Washington: Government Printing Office, 1881]
  • A General Catalogue of Double Stars Within 121° of the the North Pole by Sherburne Wesley Burnham Volume I: The Catalogue --- Volume II: Notes [Washington: Carnegie Institution, 1906]
  • A General Catalogue of 1290 Double Stars by Sherburne Wesley Burnham [Chicago, 1900]
  • Measures of Double Stars with the 40-Inch Refractor of the Yerkes Observatory in 1900 and 1901 by Sherburne Wesley Burnham [Chicago, 1902]

• Aspects: DISTANCE:
  • A Proposal for Discovering the Annual Parallax of Sirius by Rev. Nevil Maskelyne [Phil. Trans. R. S. L. 51, 895 (1759)]
  • Keepers of the Double Stars by Joseph S. Tenn [J. Astron. Hist. & Heritage 16, 81 (2013)] About the later history of the catalogue established by Sherburne Wesley Burnham in the early 1900s.

• Aspects: PROPER MOTION OF STARS:
  • Über das farbige Licht der Doppelsterne und einiger anderer Gestirne des Himmels [1842] by Christian Doppler [Prague: KBGW, 1903]
  • Measures of Proper Motion Stars Made with the 40-Inch Refractor of the Yerkes Observatory in the Years 1907 to 1912 by Sherburne Wesley Burnham [Washington: Carnegie Institution, 1913]
  • Stellar Movements and the Structure of the Universe by Sir Arthur Stanley Eddington [London: Macmillan, 1914]

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