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THE PLANET SATURN—In the Astronomische Nachrichten, No. 3365, Prof. Barnard comments upon the accounts of various new markings on the rings and body of this planet. In company with Profs. Burnham and Hough, he carefully examined Saturn with the 18½-inch refractor at Dearborn Observatory. The planet was in a good position for seeing, being on the meridian, and during the evening several difficult double-stars were accurately measured. In spite of this, no abnormal features could be discerned, either on the globe or on the rings. The recently reported observations of new divisions, ragged edges to the crape-ring, &c., were all invisible. In fact the planet appeared very similar to what Prof. Barnard usually saw with the 36-inch Lick, although the latter, with its larger aperture, made the identification of details less difficult.
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Our Astronomical Column. Nature 54, 327 (1896). https://doi.org/10.1038/054327a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/054327a0