ASTRONOMICAL ()];8EKVAT0iiIES. 453 



Instruments : 



(a) Meridian circle: Oue; makor, Repsold, in Ilamburg; diameter 

 of circle, 30 iiicbes ; divided to 2' ; read by 4 microscopes to 0.1" ; aper- 

 ture of objective, 5.3 inches ; niagnif^'ing power ordinarily employed, 

 100 diameters. 



[c) Equatorial instrument : Maker, Merz, in Miniicb; aperture of ob- 

 jective, 10.7 inches ; magnifyini;- i)o\ver of eye-pieces, 100 to 1,200. (c') 

 Photoheliograph of Dalmayer, in London. 



{d) Universal spectroscope of Merz, in Munich; direct vision with 

 10 prisms and micrometer. 



(e) One photometer of Zollner. 



(/) Chronograpli : of Siemens and Halske. 



{g) Clocks: Mean time, two; makers, Tiede, Utzschneider ; sidereal, 

 two; makes, Kessels, Tolstoi. 



{h) Chronometers: Mean time, two; maker, Dent; sidereal, two; 

 makers. Dent, Kessels. 



(i) Miscellaneous: Transportable transit instruments, theodolites, uni- 

 versal instruments, etc. 



MtJNcnEN, Bavaria. 



Kdniglichc Stcrnwarfc, Bogenhausen. 



Longitude from Greenwich, 4G'" 20.13^ E. 



Latitude, 48o 8' 45.5" K 



Directors: K. F. von Seyffer, 1809. 



J. VON SOLDNER, 1810-1833. 



Prof. Dr. J. VON La^iont, 1833-1879. 



Dr. Seidel (provisory). 



Prof. Dr. 11. Seeliger, October, 1882. 

 Founded in 1809, on the hill of Bogenhausen, near Munich ; a main 

 building of one story, facing east and west; two wings extend toward 

 the north. An edifice designed for the purpose was luit up in the gar- 

 den for a great refractor, by the aid of which Lamont made his obser- 

 vations of the satellites of Saturn and of the nebulre. 



Munich, Bavaria. (See Munciien.) 

 MuNSTER, Prussia. 



Stcrmcarte. 



Longitude from Greenwich, 30'" 3P E. 



Latitude, 51^- 58' 10" N. 



Authority for longitude and latitude: Oonuaissance des Temps, 1884, 



p. xxvii. 

 Directors: E. Heis, 1852-1877. 

 Professor Sturm. 

 Founded in 1852, in the neighborhood of the academy (high school). 



