From:
Richard Anthony Proctor
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[30 April 1870]
Source of text:
RS:HS 14.122
Summary:
Sends map from his new atlas. Reports finding a region rich in bright stars in the northern hemisphere but distinct from the Milky Way. States that in a Royal Institution lecture, he will claim that telescopes cannot reach the limits of the sidereal system and that it is far more complex than traditionally assumed.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project