Argelander
Americannoun
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“We have this enormous field of view,” said Reiko Nakajima, an astronomer at the Argelander Institute for Astronomy at the University of Bonn in Germany, at the recent press conference.
From Scientific American • Nov. 8, 2023
Argelander counted at Bonn more than 3,000 stars, and Hozeau, near the equator, where all the stars of the sphere successively appear in view, enumerated 6,000 stars.
From The Astronomy of Milton's 'Paradise Lost' by Orchard, Thomas Nathaniel
Cél., found by Argelander to have a proper motion of 4·734′, and by Winnecke a parallax of O·511′.
From A Popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century Fourth Edition by Clerke, Agnes M. (Agnes Mary)
This is the star Beta Lyrae which was observed by Goodricke, Argelander, Belopolsky, Schur, Markwick and by many others.
From Darwin and Modern Science by Seward, A. C. (Albert Charles)
The estimates of Argelander, Heis, and Houzeau are based on the same scale as that used by Ptolemy and Al-Sufi.
From Astronomical Curiosities Facts and Fallacies by Gore, J. Ellard
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