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Advantages of the Lick Observatory. 



Mr. David P. Todd, in a pamphlet descrip- 

 tive of the Lick Observatory, Mount Hamil- 

 ton, California, mentions as among the advan- 

 tages of its peculiar situation that the steadi- 

 ness of the atmosphere at that height permits 

 the regular employment of telescopic eye- 

 pieces which magnify two or three times as 

 much as the instruments in ordinary use. 

 " It is thus not unreasonable to expect that 

 a few nisrhts in the course of each observ- 

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 magnifying power about thirty-five hun- 

 dred diameters may be advantageously 

 employed on the great telescope. The 

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 become about sixty miles, but the corre- 

 sponding ideal conditions of perfect vision 

 can never be obtained." The observer 

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