Details of exhibit
- Exhibition:
- 1911 Fifty-sixth Annual Exhibition of the Royal Photographic Society of Great Britain
- Exhibit title:
- Objective prism spectrograms, showing straight, bifurcated and twisted monochromatic images of the comet's tail - on as many different sates - and therefore revealing the fact that the same substance may leave the comet's head on widely divergent paths.
- Exhibitor:
- Lowell Observatory
- Section:
- Stereographs and Transparencies in Sections II., III. and V.
- Group Title:
- Astronomical Photographs - Comet Photographs
- Exhibit No.:
- 957 to 962
- Sub-exhibits:
- 957 [1] Exposed May 4 - Straight monochromatic images of tail. V. M. Slipher
958 [2] Exposed May 6 - Bifurcated monochromatic images of tail V. M. Slipher
959 [3] Exposed May 7 - Twisted monochromaticf images of tail V. M. Slipher
960 [4] Exposed May 10 - Tail spectrum continuous due to reflected sunlight V. M. Slipher
961 [5] Exposed May 28 - Tail self-luminous again V. M. Slipher
962 [6] Exposed June 25 - Tail remains self-luminous. V. M. Slipher
- Exhibit type:
- Photograph
- Process:
- [Not Listed] ()
- Award:
- none
- Source(s):
- Photograph by V. M. Slipher
