| Show k and photography phy modern modem astronomy is moro more deeply indebted to the science of ph photography than the average reader may imaging without the aid of the camera and tha perfect views it has given us of the bodies far out in space knowledge our of celestial geography in the latter part of tm this tho the grandest of all the ce centuries li would be meager indeed indea when where or by whom the tha camera was first pont pointed skyward with the tha intention of photographing a planet or even a whole section of the star spangled canopy which envelops our litile little world I 1 will not attempt to say bay but the grandest of all such undertakings is that which his has been inaugurated and partially carried out by the astronomers and scientific photographers of tho the world during the past two years yeam mind conceived the idea of mapping the entire sky of malang a bypath chart of the heavens as it were this thia NA iha ih N A when fully matured was communicated to others interested in that particular branch of science an and a the result was vas an agreement that a celestial aklu should be made st louis republic |
