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Half-hours with the Telescope

CHAPTER VI
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He must be an unimaginative man who can see Saturn for the first time in such a telescope, without a feeling of awe and amazement.

If there is any object in the heavens--I except not even the Sun--calculated to impress one with a sense of the wisdom and omnipotence of the Creator it is this.

"His fashioning hand" is indeed visible throughout space, but in Saturn's system it is most impressively manifest.
Saturn, to be satisfactorily seen, requires a much more powerful telescope than Jupiter.

A good 2-inch telescope will do much, however, in exhibiting his rings and belts.

I have never seen him satisfactorily myself with such an aperture, but Mr.Grover has not only seen the above-named features, but even a penumbra to the shadow on the rings with a 2-inch telescope.
Saturn revolving round the sun in a long period--nearly thirty years--presents slowly varying changes of appearance (see Plate 7).


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