Huggins, William, Sir, 1824-1910.
Sir William Huggins diaries, 1856-1900.
The diaries consist of 6 notebooks which are logs of the author's routine observations of the planets and stars and which document progress in his significant work on the spectra of stars. One contains notes on the spectra of laboratory sources and another contains clippings and notes from the work of other people in stellar spectroscopy.
Pioneer in field of astrophysics and spectroscopic astronomy. Huggins designed a spectrascope to observe stellar spectra. His work also includes spectroscopic observations of nebula, comets and a nova.
Astronomical spectroscopy.
Stars -- Observations.
Planets -- Observations.
Spectrum analysis.
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