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Gould's Argentine Uranometry
March 25, 1880 issue

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This article focuses on the book "Uranometria Argentina. Brightness and Position of Every Fixed Star Down to the Seventh Magnitude Within One Hundred Degrees of the South Pole," by Benjamin Apthorp Gould. This is the first publication of the National Observatory of the Argentine Republic, which was founded in 1870 by Gould, formerly Director of the Dudley Observatory at Albany. The stars visible to the naked eye were first carefully plotted, and their magnitudes were then determined by a comparison with those of the typebelt. These comparisons were made by the aid of an opera-glass or a telescope, and each region was examined by different observers. Their results agree in a surprising manner.

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URANOMETRIA Argentina. Brightness & Position of Every Fixed Star Down to the Seventh Magnitude Within One Hundred Degrees of the South Pole (Book); GOULD, Benjamin Apthorp; OBSERVATORIES; STARS; ASTRONOMY; ARGENTINA
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