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He had already formed the project of extending Argelander's "Durchmusterung" from the point where it was left by Schönfeld to the southern pole; and his ideas regarding the means of carrying it into execution crystallised at the needle touch of the cometary experiments.
A Popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century Fourth Edition 1874
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He added, however, seventeen stars from the Bonn _Durchmusterung_, so that his list comprised sixty-nine, down to 9.2 magnitude.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 623, December 10, 1887 Various
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A third great Durchmusterung has for some time been in preparation at
Lectures on Stellar Statistics Carl Vilhelm Ludvig Charlier 1898
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A great “Durchmusterung”, that will include all stars to the 11th magnitude, has for the last thirty years been in progress at different observatories proposed by the congress in Paris, 1888.
Lectures on Stellar Statistics Carl Vilhelm Ludvig Charlier 1898
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A scholar of BESSEL he was first called as director in Åbo, then in Hälsingfors, and from there went in 1836 to Bonn, where in the years 1852 to 1856 he performed this great _Durchmusterung_.
Lectures on Stellar Statistics Carl Vilhelm Ludvig Charlier 1898
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Durchmusterung, which after fourteen years, with Kapteyn's aid in reducing, was completed.
History of Astronomy George Forbes 1892
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Durchmusterung; and the great International Photographic Chart of the
The Astronomy of the Bible An Elementary Commentary on the Astronomical References of Holy Scripture 1889
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With a meridian photometer of augmented power, the surprising number of 473,216 settings were made during the years 1891-98, nearly all by the indefatigable director himself, and they afforded materials for a "Photometric Durchmusterung," published in 1901, including all stars to 7·5 magnitude north of declination - 40°. [
A Popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century Fourth Edition 1874
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Durchmusterung, "[66] in which 324,198 stars visible in the northern hemisphere are enumerated, and the corresponding" Atlas "published in
A Popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century Fourth Edition 1874
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Durchmusterung "[1575] placed at the disposal of astronomers a photographic census of the heavens fuller and surer than the corresponding visual enumeration executed at Bonn.
A Popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century Fourth Edition 1874
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