Details of exhibit
- Exhibition:
- 1915 Sixtieth Annual Exhibition of the Royal Photographic Society of Great Britain
- Exhibit title:
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- Exhibitor:
- Mount Wilson Solar Observatory
- Section:
- III. Scientific and Technical Photographs, &c.
- Exhibit No.:
- 173 to 184
- Description:
- [1] Dome of 100 in. reflecting telescope under construction.
[2] 150 ft. tower telescope.
[3] Revolving head of 75 ft. spectrograph.
[4] Spectro-heliograms showing distribution of hydrogen in the solar atmosphere and in the vicinity of sun spots.
[5] Solar prominence about 80,000 miles high.
[6] Bipolar sun spot group with spectrograms made to show displacements of lines due to the magnetic field.
[7] Sun spot spectrum showing triple and quadruple lines to the magnetic field.
[8] Vortex rings of coloured fluid rising through water.
[9] Successive forms of vortices produced in water by the rotation of a wire.
[10] Single smoke vortices for comparison with hydrogen flocculi about single sun spots.
[11] Double smoke vortices for comparison with hydrogen flocculi about bipolar sun spots.
[12] Horizontal sections of smoke vortices at different levels.
[13] Comparison of smoke vortices with solar prominence near sun spots.
[14] Typical stellar spectra.
[15] Intensity of continuous spectrum of stars of large and small motion.
[16] Stars of large and small radial velocity.
[17] Spectrum of the great cluster in Hercules.
[18] Spectrum of the Andromeda nebulae.
[19] Spectra of Novae. - Exhibit type:
- Photographic equipment and supplies
- Process:
- [Not Listed] ()
- Award:
- none
