On the spectra of saturn and uranus

✍ Scribed by James E. Keeler

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1889
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 309 KB
• Volume: 122
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0004-6337
• DOI: 10.1002/asna.18891222302

✦ Synopsis

On the Spectra of Saturn and Uranus.

Ry Yaiizes E. Kpeler, Astronomer of the Lick Observatory.

[With a plate.] I . T h e S p e c t r u m of t h e R i n g s o f S a t u r n . The note by Mr. Lockyer on the Spectrum of the Rings of Saturn, in No. 2881 of the Astr. Nachr., and other articles which have appeared since its publication, induced m e to examine the spectrum of Saturn very carefully during the past opposition, with a number of spectroscopes attached to the 36 inch equatorial of this observatory. * The results, so far as the detection of bright lines is concerned, are purely negative, but in order that a judgment may be formed of the weight to which they are entitled, I give below a