A catalogue of 16,748 southern stars
Subtitle: deduced by the United States Naval Observatory from the zone observations made at Santiago de Chile
By: by the U.S. Naval Astronomical Expedition to the southern hemisphere during the years 1849-'50-'51-'52 ; J.M. Gilliss, superintendent ; Archibald MacRae, S. Ledyard Phelps, E.R. Smith, assistants
Contributors: Gilliss, J. M. (James Melville), 1811-1865; MacRae, Archibald; Phelps, Seth Ledyard, -1885; Smith, E. R.; United States Naval Observatory
Series: Washington observations for 1890. Appendix -- 1; Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Science, Technology, and Medicine, Part I; Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Science, Technology, and Medicine, Part I
Publisher: G.P.O.
Published: 1895
Place of publication: Washington [D.C.]
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Number of pages: 420
Subjects: Stars; Catalogs
Notes: The results of the astronomical observations of the Expedition were designed to form v. 4 and 5 of the reports of the Expedition, of which v. 1-3 and 6 were published in 1855-56. Vols. 4 and 5 were not published, the material for v. 4 having been published by the U.S. Naval Observatory in 1871 as appendix 1 to the Washington observations for 1868, while that for v. 5 is here originally published.

Reproduction of the original from the Library of Congress.