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