Photograph of the German station in Punta Arenas. Left, wooden
lighthouse of Punta Arenas, center, "tea house" and
meteorological station, right, two observing domes made from iron and
canvas (Archiv, Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften).
A German commission had set up a very detailed scheme of observing the
Venus transits of 1874 and 1882 by means of heliometers and
photoheliographs. Because the latter had turned out to yield very
inaccurate results, the 1882 expeditions to Hartford (Connecticut),
Aiken (South Carolina), Bahia Blanca (Argentina) and Punta Arenas
(Chile) concentrated only on visual, and almost exclusively on
heliometer observations.
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australex 13 months ago | reply
Gran novedad, gracias por compartir, saludos.