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    THE STRANGE ODYSSEY OF THE BRUCE ASTROGRAPH

    Jul 20, 2023 1 minute

    orty of the 50 plates included in Barnard’s monumental were obtained with the Bruce astrograph at Mount Wilson in 1905. Afterwards, the instrument was returned to Yerkes Observatory and set up in a small dome between the main observatory building and

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