Griffith Observer: 1940-1943: 17 Editions from Various Years

Conditions range from used to good. These came from a gentlemen who volunteered at the observatory for over 20 years!

Issues:

- Vol. IV, No. 1 January 1940
- Vol. IV, No. 6 June 1940 (BACK COVER HAS SOME DAMAGE)
- Vol. IV, No. 10 October 1940

- Vol. V, No. 6 June 1941
- Vol. V, No. 7 July 1941

- Vol. VI, No. 1 January 1942
- Vol. VI, No. 2 February 1942
- Vol. VI, No. 3 March 1942
- Vol. VI, No. 5 May 1942
- Vol. VI, No. 6 June 1942
- Vol. VI, No. 9 September 1942 (COVER HAS SLIGHT DAMAGE)

- Vol. VII, No. 2 February 1943
- Vol. VII, No. 3 March 1943
- Vol. VII, No. 5 May 1943
- Vol. VII, No. 8 August 1943
- Vol. VII, No. 9 September 1943
- Vol. VII, No. 12 December 1943



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:

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 Cleminshaw, C. H. Galileo 1 1942 Galileo, death, pendulum, telescope, moon, Jupiter, satellite, Saturn, Venus, Sun, spot, Church Alter, Dinsmore Seeing 1942 in the Sky 1 1942 sky, observe, eclipse, telescope, planet Cleminshaw, C. H. The Time of Day 2 1942 clock, time, Sun, Regulus, solar, day, sidereal, daylight savings Cleminshaw, C. H. The 200-Inch Telescope 2 1942 Palomar, telescope, build, photo Alter, Dinsmore Helping the Astronomy Student (Part 1 of 2) 2 1942 teach, student, well, improve, class Kuiper, Gerald P. The Nearest Stars 3 1942 near, star, Wolf 359, Canopus, Vega, parsec, sampling, parallax, mainsequence, Hertzsprung- Russell Alter, Dinsmore Some Common Astronomical Terms 3 1942 definition, light year, parsec, parallax, proper motion, blink survey, magnitude, spectral type Alter, Dinsmore Helping the Astronomy Student (Part 2 of 2) 3 1942 teacher, model, coordinate, altazimuth, build, aberration, light Alter, Dinsmore Stamps Commemorate Observatory Dedication 5 1942 Stamp, Mexico, first, Observatory, National, commemorate Cleminshaw, C. H. The Discoveries of Uranus and Neptune 5 1942 Uranus, Neptune, Herschel, Newton, Adams, discovery, Leverrier, Galle - Revised Wartime Schedule of the Griffith Observatory 5 1942 GO, war, schedule Alter, Dinsmore The Mohammedan Era in Astronomy 6 1942 Russia, Tamerlane, palace, discovery, Almagest, Ptolemy, Al Mamun, Albategnuis, Persia, Baghdad, Arabic, almanac, zenith Cleminshaw, C. H. The Polar Sky 6 1942 GO, Planetarium, show Herbig, George H. Advances in Astronomical Photography 2 1943 telescope, photography, color, plate, red, light Cleminshaw, C. H. Two Eclipses in February 2 1943 sun, solar, eclipse, total, lunar, moon Cleminshaw, C. H. The New Comet 2 1943 Whipple, comet, discovery, Harvard Cleminshaw, C. H. Celestial Navigation (Planetarium Subject for March) 3 1943 celestial, navigation, declination, time, zone, equinox, zenith, azimuth, altitude Pettit, Edison Watches and Chronometers 8 1943 time, chronometer, watch, movement, clock, gear, jewel, wound Cleminshaw, C. H. Trails of Circumpolar Stars 8 1943 star, circumpolar, North Star, Polaris, photography, exposure Anonymous The Galaxies of Space (Planetarium Show for August) 8 1943 GO, Planetarium Clements, Thomas Can Science Predict Earthquakes? 9 1943 earthquake, fault, California, predict, fore shock author title mo year key words Cleminshaw, C. H. Other Solar Systems 9 1943 planet, sun, extra solar, Sirius, binary, Cygni, companion, Ophiuchi, Cincinnati Cleminshaw, C. H. A Typical Oil Field 9 1943 GO, exhibit, oil, well

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