| Show I I T 1 Astronomy and Ihe Cinematograph 16 I J A I N I I Paris no I oft vanat nt London Standard I J Whn the nrfl Animated photogmph 1 I f I I were shown rw persons could have it t I j tl 1 I Imagined tIlhate the I elntmatoKraph would shortly he iise1 us u means of oi I teachlnn astronomy That Is 1 however I J the latest application of the invention I M Camlll lIammorlon the will 4 h own French Astronomer hart under I J taken the task of photographing or 1 cirsenintgraphInst ilia Sky Tile I I I t other day he Informed mo > Hull he was i well satisfied with the eult lie hill I it already obtained As there Is I no Ine I J il f mole raphic machine which could work from sunset to sunrise and as the I Apparent movement of the celestial I 1 0 t4t bodies to I Cry slow M 1lalllmnrlon I contents himself wlh tnklllg between 2000 lId 3000 photographi of the firma I ment every night when the sky Is I clear I I j I He contends that tile win be amply turn lent to ishour tile motion of the I f mean stirs and planets t without any I Perceptible br alt In the continuity it I appears that the objMlgla he em ploys i In his photographic apparatus In I I uh no to embilive me hundred find I I eight degrtes so that the whole llrma I merit will be reen when the photo I graphs are put Into the cinematograph 4 Commeilng at dusk the moon and stars i i I 111 a dagicatiess comes oil appear I one I ra 11 after unother ei In proportion to ah magnitude and be seen pursuing their course In the sky till the light of the rising sun In the east produces the In I I erse of > the phenomenon wltntsscd in I I he evelllll Of course no Is I common I4 lr 1 I ly the caio with the seelles of terrestrial I ter-restrial life reproduced hy the cinema s lograph tin ap I lars nt motion of the I heannl I bodies will be hastened 11 that little course from east to wetl I nol ooeupy more than B feW IIIln 1k I ut Ff f 31 Flammarlon alo told me that It 1 was his I Intention to treat the Spate on 1 1 I J ss i 1 I 14 q I I I the sun In the same way nnd that he I hoped cry shortly to un 1 able with he elnemat sigin Ill ti show to the In hat fintstr of our little planet tha movements of those formldabls v orllc pit of fire In the suns envelope its correctly 118 the mOWlllent of water arid the bieaklng of tile waves of the ocfan are now Shown Ih In ill at how Is or li I not nilT ii riammorlons Ambition is I 10 complete his work by photographIng nil tin phases of the plnnrls rind pre i sent them to the public bj means of the clnematoRlaph lie thinks that with patience thit task not present Insurmountable In-surmountable chat Alex H in 1 at present pres-ent linio slbli > and It will probably alias al-ias remain Impossible to photoginph tI he movement of the earth In I par no lie n front i the moon or front 011 of the planets but with the object of iroduclng the Illusion M Hammarlon her Ihotograyhod a globe he constructed construct-ed for the puriOfl nnd placed In not hall In front of a ImckgroundrelrelIl Inlt the Pky The globe lighted by one single enurce air light representing the sun and revolving 011 tin onto l by mnn I of B I clockwork nrrl1omont wan phc tographed for the cinematograph The inlmatcd photographs representing thlll Reene shown toy M Ilammntlon it the list meeting 1 of the French astronomical society were greatly 01 mired and won hearty applause for heir author |
