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EXAMPLES OF THE NEW ASTRONOMY. 
(Wire Lantern Views.) 
By T. STEELE SHELDON, M.D. 31st March, 1903. 
The Lecturer, beginning with the Lick Observatory, exhibited 
views and gave descriptions of the principal observatories and 
telescopes in the world, and referred to the use made of the 
camera, for astronomical purposes, in the present day The most 
striking triumphs in the new astronomy have been gained 
through the spectroscope. By the aid of photography, star- 
charting is a field in which the amateur can do good work. 
In views of the milky-way some of the details, invisible 
through the telescope, are distinctly shown by photography. 
It had been said that if we could solve the milky-way, we could 
solve the riddle of the universe, and a great deal of speculation 
had been made about it. The great stars are in proximity to the 
milky-way, which itself has a richness of stars of every degree of 
brightness. Views of sections of the milky-way showed that 
there were dark lanes branching from nebulous stars, and lanes 
of light, the meaning of whose appearance had led to much dis- 
cussion. ‘The milky-way was a vast cosmical workshop, full of 
much material, which, in obedience to law, was being shaped 
into stellar worlds and systems, which were being recognised 
through the magic medium of the spectroscope and the camera. 
There were differences in radiation and luminosity; there were 
old nebule and new nebule. Having pointed out the peculiar- 
ities in the nebula in Cygnis, Perseus, Orion, Argus, and other 
regions, the Lecturer explained the spectrum analysis and its 
immense use in the science of spectrum chemistry, and concluded 
a most interesting lecture by a detailed history of the new star 
in Perseus, discovered by Dr. Andrews, of Glasgow. 
GEER 
