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

ITEM IS: USED



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