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Cromwell Argus, Volume XLI, Issue 2211, 5 September 1910, Page 2

WONDERS OF ASTRONOMY. S'.ar gazing is a trifle in modern astronomers* taaks. Their rval job is to fix the positions of the heavenlv •bcdifis. The object gla<*es of transit tele scopes are crossed by fine lines made from ihe spid.-r's web. Every time the star under observation crosses one of the linei 'he astronomer touches a button, which manses the time to be recorded by a Chronograph. Nearly all ob-ervers press the key earlier for bright stea-s than for "hint stars, so -the work is now done automatically. Besides the transit telecopes aero s field of virion tf-ie stars move in procession, there are equatorial telescopes for taking photograph* of the heavens. Moved by clockwork, pi instilment of this kind turns exactly round (he circle in 24 hours, so if directed towards a particular star it follows it from rise to setting, and an photographi* plite f)X*»d in the telescope would tak* « rich*r? of a particular pert of tihe fkr. By this means a great internationaJ work is being done.