The record-union., 1891-11-04
A COMING TREAT
The School of Design to be Given
a Benefit.
Professor Barnard of the Lick Observa-
tory to Tell Us of the Discoveries
Made on Mount Hamilton.

A treat is promised the Sacramento
public next Wednesday night at the
Metropolitan Theater, and the RECORD
UNION is glad to be able to further the
effort that secures it.
The Sacramento School of Design,
which for six years has been doing GOOD
and asking no aid, finding need for as
sistance to enlarge and carry on its bene-
ficent work, appealed to the comet
finder, Professor L. e. Barnard, of the
Lick Observatory, to lecture for it. The
Professor replied that the faculty is de
sirous to give the people the knowledge
acquired by recent discoveries at the OBJ
servatory, and he.would therefore lecture
for the school if it would place the prices
SO low so that the largest possible num-
Der Of people could hear Of the marvels
of recent discovery. He would thus
lecture for an admission fee to aid so good
a cause as Sacramento is promoting in her
Art SchooI.
The Museum Directory has therefore
arranged for the lecture, which is to be a
popular one, one everybody will find of
deepest interest, for those who have heard
1t give glowing accounts of ii. 1t will be
illustrated by very large number of
! =
! telescope. and thrown upon screen by
an electropticon of intense power. Some
of these will be shown here for the first
time.
Professor Barnard, who is a charming
! speaker, in writing to the association
says he will try to make clear TO the peo-
pie the marVels of the application Of pho
Biography TO astronomy, the difficulties
overcome aud the triumph of the dry
! plate process.
By its means invisible stars and nebule
are revealed III the picture, and the Won
derful results III registering the positions
and delineatlng the forms of the celestial
| bodies that have been achieved
! Then he will tell his audience and show
| the views of double stars and their orb
! ital motion; of double suns with motions
| almost detying the laws OF mechanics and
the individual components of which no
telescope will ever show.
The motion Of the nebulse and dimeu-
| sions of some Of the stars from recent de-
! terTninations and distances as determined
! by photography. He viii speak OF and
! illustrate the most mysterious object in
| the heavens, the Gegenschen; then that
| dead world, the moon and its scenery, the
| canals OF Mars; Jupiter and the changes
going on there; the great Red SPOT; Venus
and its atmosphere; the habitability of
the planets; discoveries about Saturn and
its rings, as that the inner one is trans
| parent, and that the rings disappeared in
September and October OF this year.
Then he will tell of comets ami comet
finding; their character; of a comet
| with satellites, Of its transit over Aster-
ope of the Pleiades of the great comet of
| 1882, etc.
Next he will illustrate the very latest
and most astonishing discoveries about
the nebul8, and that only photography
has revealed; their distribution and their
purpose in the economy of the universe.
Then the stars will be considered and
the latest discoveries; spectroscopic OBJ
servations of their motions; burned out
1 suns, etc. Then will come the greatest
charm of the lecture, The Milky Way,n
and the discoveries by Professor Bar
nard, recently made at the Lick Observ-
atory, the most wonderful OF which was
made by picture of the constellation of
! SagIttarIus disclosing wonders the eye
had never seen before; that indeed, the
milky way Is of clusters OF untold mill
ions of stars and clouds of suns.
| Among the celestial photographs to be
thrown on the screen will be, saws Pro
fessor Barnard to the committee, photo
graphs of the sun of the doubling of the
lines in the spectrum of Beta Aurigae,
| from which it was discovered that that
star is really two suns, revolving about
| each other in four days time. Views of
! the planets will follow then of the moon
| as just MADE with the great telescope of
the Lick Observatory; the moons vol
canoes, plains, craters, mountain ranges
| Of its north pole, its Apennines and Alps
! then along the terminator showing the
| great crater Langranus, the walled plain
and the sea of Crises. The great crater
! Copernus, Theophilus, Cyrillus, etc, will
! follow.
The photographs of the nebulae will
/ be shown, and of the great comets. and
one shows the rapid motion of Davidson's s
! comet of 1889, and two of the views Of
VOLTS comet are down to September 3.
| 1891. One view in the nebulae of An
dromeda will show what appears to the
! eye to be two stars is really cluster of
| %, Loco stars.
The Museum Association this morning
announces the lecture and the admission
rates. 1t is for so worthy cause, so pub
| lie spirited a work and so in the interest
| of popular education and the diffusion of
knowledge that Sacramento ought to fill
the theater on the occasion to over
! flowing.
While here Professor Barnard will be
the special guest Of the Museum Associa-
| ton Directory.
FEDERATED TRADES