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CAMERA OOES MOST OF WORKAstronomers Sleep as Do Other Mor* tils, Leaving the Faithful Pho-tographer on Guard.Thank* to modem science, natron* crniern ran now slf-ep at night. According tn popular frmlltl«*n, ns-tronomers are people win* past Hi**entire (ll^ht nt one f*nd of n telescopenoil onu sleep only In the daytime or *m rainy night a Bill no more, accord*Ing to Mis* Annie Jump Cannon, a*-ftfotnnl in the Harvard college on* uarvarory nnd curator of NKirnnoni-lent photographic of the college.Now ilie astronomer can go to bednt the mime firm* us any other person/ she an Id. “He rums his work over fo a telescope and a photographer it ml walls unlit morning to study the heaven- ohMSirnttoiMft are now a mutter ot very expert photographyam! dodm Hons nre made from thepht'e* thus produced.At Hnntml we have complete record* of the fmiveto dating hmk overmany jeiir* nml those Hre present'din whnt I i all a laboratory ofvolumes. Kuril hook Is u perishable glas^ plate which niu*t he wry carefully hu i id let I and guarded.On every fair nicht of the year In the ohaervntnry nt Cambridge, and Inthe allied one which we have In Peru,a complete photographic* survey of the heavens Is made, which Is turned over to expert observers on the follow* Ing tiny for aearchlng itimlysia. nr come. the discovery of 11 comet or a new sfnr Is a great event for un.*
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Douglas Budget

Douglas, Wyoming, US

Thu, Jan 19, 1922

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