William Lewis Elkin

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William Lewis Elkin

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Astronomy

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PhD Astronomy University of California, Berkeley

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According to Wikipedia, William Lewis Elkin was an American astronomer known for his detailed work measuring parallaxes and for pioneering work in meteor photography. He served as director of the Yale University Observatory from 1896 to 1910.

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William Lewis Elkin's Published Works

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The Velocity of Meteors as Deduced from Photographs at the Yale Observatory (1900) (10)
Photographic Observations of the Leonids at the Yale Observatory (8)
The velocity of meteors from photographs (1899) (2)
Observations of the Great Comet (b) 1882 (1882) (2)
Observations of the 1898 Leonid meteors and discovery of a comet (1898j) at the Yale Observatory (1898) (2)
DISCUSSION OF A NATIONAL OBSERVATORY. (1899) (1)
Photography of meteors (1893) (1)
Results of the Photographic Observations of the Leonids, November 14-15, 1898, at the Yale Observatory (1899) (1)
On the relative refrangibility of the light of Mars and stars (1890) (0)
Note on the orbit of the Great Comet 1882 II (0)
Researches with the Heliometer. Part IV. Catalogue of Tale Parallax Results (0)
Determination of the parallax of the ten first magnitude stars in the northern hemisphere. (0)
Iv. elements of the great comet 1882 (0)
A determination of the solar parallax and mass of the moon (0)
Determination of the Solar Parallax, &c. Vol. I, Part 4. Discussion of the Observations of Iris (0)
X. THE POLARIZING PHOTOMETER AND ITS APPLICATION TO α CENTAURI (0)
Reports for the Years 1905 to 1910, Presented by the Board of Managers of the Observatory of Yale University to the President and Fellows (0)
The Yale heliometer measures of the Vulpecula zone (0)
THE RUTHERFURD PHOTOGRAPHIC MEASURES OF THE PLEIADES (1892) (0)
IV. ELEMENTS OF THE GREAT COMET 1882 (b) (0)
Elements of the Great Comet (b) 1882 (1882) (0)
Researches with the Heliometer. Part I. Parallax Investigations on 163 Stars mainly of large proper motion. (0)
VIII. TELEGRAPHIC DETERMINATION OF THE LONGITUDE OF KIMBERLEY (0)
Triangulation of stars in the vicinity of the North pole. (0)
Comparison of Dr. Gould's reductions of Mr. Rutherfurd's Pleiades photographs I%rith the heliometer results (1889) (0)
Researches with the Heliometer. Part VII. Revision of the First Yale Triangulation of the Principal Stars in the Group of the Pleiades (0)

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