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What people are saying - Write a reviewReview: The Haunted Observatory: Curiosities from the Astronomer's CabinetUser Review - Clare - GoodreadsThere was some interesting information about how astronomical discoveries were made and verified in the past, but there was also too much minutia on the coordinates of where objects were situated ... Read full review Review: The Haunted Observatory: Curiosities from the Astronomer's CabinetUser Review - Dave Mosher - GoodreadsThe prologue set the tone for this book: a complete historical and literary masturbation that leaves me asking "what the hell did I just read?" If this book is meant for even an average space ... Read full review Related books
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8 other sections not shown Common terms and phrasesangular appearance arcseconds Ashbrook asteroids Astronomische Nachrichten atmosphere August Barnard body bright British Astronomical Association Cambridge celestial Challis cloud Coleridge comet crescent cusp dark Dawes December diameter discovery disk distance E. E. Barnard Earth eclipse elongation English Mechanic faint Ferguson Hind Hygea Ibid inferior conjunction J. R. Hind January John Joseph Ashbrook Journal Jupiter Lassell Papers letter Lewis Swift Lick Observatory light Lilienthal limb London luminous lunar Madler magnitude Mars Mechanic and World Mercury meteors Monthly Notices Moon moon's motion mountains Neptune night noted November object observation occultation October Olbers optical orbit phenomenon photographic Planet Venus planetary plates position possible refractor remarked reported right ascension ring rotation Royal Astronomical Society satellite Saturn Schroter seen September shadow sight Society Archives spots star telescope tion Tombaugh Trouvelot twilight University Uranus Verrier visible Wartmann William Herschel William Lassell World of Science Bibliographic information
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