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very faint at first; steady but woolly

 
Moonlight; very faint, unsteady, and diffuse.       November 6, 1897

Seeing steady but sky thick.       December 11, 1897
Moonlight ; planet woolly; satellite faint.       December 12, 1897
Thick; very difficult; clouds.       December 16, 1897

Seeing grows very bad.       January 13, 1898
Very faint ; clouds interrupt.       January 17, 1898

Very faint at first.       February 13, 1898

Limb sharp; mottled detail on disk of planet.       October 10, 1899

Markings on disk seen distinctly, but only for a moment.       October 24, 1899
Image steady but faint.       October 26, 1899

Hazy and fuzzy; bad seeing.       November 9, 1899

Sky thick; satellite faint.       January 4, 1900

Difficult.       January 9, 1900
Very fair definition.       January 9, 1900
Hazy and fearfully blurred.       January 14, 1900
Quite steady, but a little fuzzy.       January 15, 1900
Satellite fairly distinct.       January 15, 1900
Difficult.       January 21, 1900

Fairly distinct.       January 22, 1900
Fairly blurred.       January 23, 1900

Windy and blurred.       January 26, 1900

Limb sharp and steady ; belts seen on planet.       February 14, 1900
Hazy.       February 27, 1900
Steady and clear.       October 21, 1902
Fuzzy; very difficult.       October 28, 1902

Steady but woolly; satellite faint.       November 21, 1904

Clouds interrupt.       February 13, 1906

A faint star near satellite made measures difficult.       February 19, 1906

Clouds interrupt.       February 25, 1906

Bright moonlight.       March 6, 1906

 

ex Observations of Satellites of the Major Planets (these, for Neptune, 1893-1907),
in Publications of the United States Naval Observatory, Second Series, Vol. 6 (1911)
University of California copy at HathiTrust
 

20 December 2018
tags: abandoned; difficulties; latihan; neptune; observations; precision imprecision; faint; abandonment