2'2-i 



ETHER AND GRAVITATIONAL MATTER. 



[From the Annuaire du Bureau des Longitudes I Paris, 1901).] 



Magni- 

 tude. 



0.7 

 6. 8 

 5.1 

 -1. 1 

 8.2 

 7.9 

 7..". 

 0. 5 

 9. 



6. 5 

 8.5 

 1.7 

 3.6 

 0.2 

 9. 



0.9 

 5. 2 

 4.5 



1. 1 

 0.2 



Name of star. 



Distance 

 from earth 

 in million 



million 

 kilometers. 



Annual 

 proper 



motions. 



« Centauri 



21185 Lalande 



in Cygni 



Sirius 



18609 Arg.-CEltzen .. 

 34 Groombridge — 



9352 Lacailie 



Procyon 



11677 Arg.-CEltzen.. 



1643 Fedorenko 



21258 Lalande 



<r Draconis 



7j Cassiopeia 



a Aurigse 



17415 Arg.-CEltzen .. 



a Aquilae 



e " Indien " 



o- Eridani 



p Cassiopeia 



a Tauri 



1831 Fedorenko 



p' Ophiuehi 



Vega 



a Urs. Min. i Polaris 



43 

 64 

 70 

 83 

 88 

 99 

 110 



llll 



119 

 121! 

 128 

 12S 

 147 

 147 

 154 

 154 

 151 

 181 

 193 

 206 

 206 

 206 

 2i k; 

 ini 



3.62 

 1.75 



5.17 

 1.32 

 2.30 

 2. 83 

 6.97 

 1.26 

 3.05 

 1.43 

 4.40 

 1.84 

 1.19 

 0. 43 

 1.27 

 0.64 

 4. 60 

 4.05 

 II. 57 

 0.19 

 (I. 12 

 1.13 

 0.36 

 0.05 



Velocities 

 perpen- 

 dicular to 

 Parallax. llneof 



sight in kil- 

 ometers pei 

 second. 



0.72 

 .48 

 .44 

 .:i7 

 .35 

 .31 

 .28 

 .27 

 . 26 

 . 25 

 .21 

 .21 

 .21 

 .21 

 .211 

 .20 

 .20 

 .17 

 .Hi 

 .15 

 .15 

 .15 

 .15 

 .07 



23.9 



17. 1 

 55. 7 

 17. 

 31.3 

 43. 5 



lis. 5 

 22. 2 

 55. 7 

 27.2 

 87.1 

 86.5 

 '27. 

 9.8 

 30.2 

 15. 2 



109. 5 



113.2 



16.9 



6. 



13.3 

 35. 8 

 11.4 



3.4 



(Stars which have largest of observed velocities in /In- line of sight. 



[Extract by the Astronomer Royal from an article in the Astrophysical Journal for January. 1901, bj 

 \V. \V. Campbell, director of Lick Observatory.] 



Magni- 

 tudes. 





1.2 

 4.1 



h. to. 



e Andromeda- 33 



y. Cassiopeia- 1 



& Leporis 5 47 



8 Canis Majoris 6 50 



. Pegasi ' 21 17 



ti Sagittarii 18 8 



The + sign denotes recession, the — sign approach. 



