{"product_id":"2940012611314","title":"PHOTOGRAPHIC INVESTIGATIONS OF FAINT NEBULAE","description":"Scanned, proofed and corrected from the original edition for your reading pleasure. (Worth every penny!)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e***\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe dissertation submitted by Edwin Hubble to the Faculty of the Ogden Graduate School of Science of the University of Chicago in candidacy for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e***\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAn excerpt from the beginning:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe study of nebulae is essentially a photographic problem for cameras of wide angle and reflectors of large focal ratio. The photographic plate presents a definite and permanent record beside which visual observations lose most of their significance. Perhaps the one field left for the older method is the measurement of sharp nuclei deeply enshrouded in nebulosity. New nebulae are now but rarely seen in the sky, although an hour's exposure made at random with a large reflector has more than an even chance of adding several small faint objects to the rapidly growing list of those already known. About 17,000 have already been catalogued, and the estimates of those within reach of existing instruments, based on the ratio of those previously known to those new in various fields, lie around 150,000.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eExtremely little is known of the nature of nebulae, and no significant classification has yet been suggested; not even a precise definition has been formulated. The essential features are that they are situated outside our solar system, that they present sensible surfaces, and that they should be unresolved into separate stars. Even then an exception must be granted for possible gaseous nebulae which appear stellar in the telescope, but whose true nature is revealed by the spectroscope. It may well be that they differ in kind and do not form a unidirectional sequence of evolution. Some at least of the great diffuse nebulosities, connected as they are with even naked-eye stars, lie within our stellar system; while others, the great spirals, with their enormous radial velocities and insensible proper motions, apparently lie outside our system. The planetaries, gaseous but well defined, are probably within our sidereal system, but at vast distances from the earth.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn addition to these classes are the numberless small, faint nebulae, vague markings on the photographic plate, whose very forms are indistinct. They may give gaseous spectra, or continuous; they may be planetaries or spirals, or they may belong to a different class entirely. They may even be clusters and not nebulae at all. These questions await their answers for instruments more powerful than those we now possess.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOur present hope is to study them statistically, but until motions, either radial or transverse, have been detected we must content ourselves with the problem of their distribution. The first step is to make a systematic survey with powerful telescopes. Fath made a beginning by photographing each of the Kapteyn fields within reach of the Mount Wilson 60-inch reflector with uniform exposures of one hour. He discovered more than eight hundred new nebulae, and confirmed the fact that the small nebulae avoid the Milky Way. This last is vital in its bearing on the question of whether or not these objects belong to our system. A survey with long exposures suggests itself, analogous to that of Kapteyn, but based on the Milky Way rather than on the equator. The writer attempted such a program with the Yerkes 24-inch reflector, giving two-hour exposures. Little progress was made, but one fact stood out, namely, that in the fields of galactic latitude -60° nebulae were very scarce when compared to the numbers met with in galactic latitude +60°.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe tendency of small nebulae to gather in clusters has been known for some time. Stratonoff's map of the distribution of faint nebulae in the Northern Hemisphere shows it very plainly. Max Wolf's more detailed study of the ecliptic regions with the 16-inch Bruce camera and the 30-inch reflector demonstrates that within these larger regions of the sky where nebulae tend to congregate there are points of accumulation about which the clustering is more marked. He measured the positions of more than four thousand new nebulae, and devised a classification which, while admittedly formal, offers an excellent scheme for temporary filing until a significant system shall be constructed.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe present paper has to do with certain clusters of small, faint nebulae which the writer found during the years 1914 to 1916 while photographing with the 24-inch reflector of the Yerkes Observatory. From about 1000 uncatalogued objects, 512 in 7 well-defined clusters were chosen for measurement. Known nebulae in the clusters numbered 76; hence there were, in all, some 588 objects, or an average of 84 per cluster. The fields are as given in Table I.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe problem of measuring and reducing accurate positions of objects at a considerable distance from the center of plates taken with a reflector...","brand":"OGB","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47147484184816,"sku":"2940012611314","price":1.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940012611314_p0.jpg?v=1763570583","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940012611314","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}