Griffith Observer: 1941: All 12 Editions
Conditions range from used to good. These came from a gentlemen who volunteered at the observatory for over 20 years!
This is an early set, great for collectors, hard to come by.
Issues:
- Vol. V, No. 1 January 1941
- Vol. V, No. 2 February 1941
- Vol. V, No. 3 March 1941
- Vol. V, No. 4 April 1941
- Vol. V, No. 5 May 1941
- Vol. V, No. 6 June 1941
- Vol. V, No. 7 July 1941
- Vol. V, No. 8 August 1941
- Vol. V, No. 9 September 1941
- Vol. V, No. 10 October 1941
- Vol. V, No. 11 November 1941
- Vol. V, No. 12 December 1941
Established in 1937, the Griffith Observer is the Observatory’s own monthly magazine. The Griffith Observer contains popular articles on astronomy and information about activities and events at the Observatory. Contains journals, calculations, graphs, equations, observatory images, conference proceedings and other published materials
Articles Included:
Anonymous A Preview of the 1941 Sky 1 1941 sky, observe, telescope, planet, eclipse
Anonymous Great Comets of the Past 1 1941
comet, Halley, Delavan, Tycho Brahe,
1811, 1843, Donati, 1861, 1882
Anderson, J. A.;
Porter, Russell W.
The Observatory on Palomar
Mountain 2 1941
telescope, Palomar, reflector, design,
mounting
Anonymous
The Triple Conjunction of
Jupiter and Saturn 2 1941 Jupiter, Saturn, conjunction, sky, observe
Anonymous
Giant Worlds of the Solar
System 2 1941
Jupiter, Saturn, size, diameter, Cassini,
ring, satellite
Anonymous The Stars of our Sky 3 1941
binary, cluster, Perseus, nebula, sky,
observe
Anonymous Springtime through the Ages 3 1941
precession, conical, movement, earth,
rotation, Pole Star, Orion, sky, observe
Merrill, Paul W. Stars in Action 4 1941
variable, Lyrae, Cepheid, nova, supernova,
Tycho
Anonymous
Long and Short Nights
(Planetarium Demonstration for
April) 4 1941 GO, planetarium
Nicholson, Seth B. The Satellites of Jupiter 5 1941
Jupiter, satellite, Galileo, Barnard, Io,
Ganymede
Anonymous The Rotation of Our Galaxy 5 1941 GO, exhibit, rotation, galaxy
Bissell, Malcolm H.
The Next Two Billion Years: The
Past as a Preface (Part 1 of 2) 6 1941
history, earth, geology, ice age, climate,
coral, fossil
Anonymous
Ancient Measures of the
Distance to the Moon 6 1941
Moon, Aristarchus, Greece, eclipse,
distance
Bower, E. C. Telling Time from the Stars 6 1941
Dipper, time, observation, sky, Polaris,
equation
Bissell, Malcolm H.
The Next Two Billion Years
(Part 2 of 2) 7 1941
glacial, period, climate, man, Tertiary,
cycle, geologic, deforestation, civilization,
destruction
Anonymous Queen of the Evening Sky 7 1941 Venus, sky, observe, telescope
Anonymous Finding Distances of Stars 8 1941
parallax, distance, Alpha Centauri,
Cepheid, measure
Anonymous
The Planetaria In The United
States 8 1941
GO, planetarium, United States, Buhl,
Hayden, Fels, Adler
Anonymous Life in the Universe 9 1941
Mars, Earth, life, animal, plant, telescope,
extra solar, planet, chemistry, idealism
Anonymous Lowell's Maps of Mars 9 1941 Mars, Lowell, Canal, photograph
Olivier, Charles P. Long Enduring Meteor Trains 10 1941
meteor, light, streak, trail, observe, sky,
Leonids, Perseid
author title mo year key words
Slipher, E. C. Mars 10 1941
Mars, opposition, sky, observe, season,
telescope, hemisphere
Anonymous Additional Off Year Sunspots 11 1941 sunspot, photograph
Anonymous A Trick With the Moon 11 1941 Moon, age, equation, calculation
Anonymous A Map of the Heavens 11 1941
star map, sphere, declination, celestial,
pole, Polaris, ascension, constellation,
zenith
Seares, Frederick
H. Absorption by the Dust of Space 12 1941
light, absorption, dust, interstellar, Kapteyn,
Barnard, Russell, gas, Hubble, Milky Way
Dinsmore, Alter Our Galaxy and Beyond 12 1941 GO, planetarium, galaxy
- Index to Volume V, 1941 12 1941 GO, index