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Remarkable Appearance of the Shadow of Saturn Projected on the Ring
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Remarkable Appearance of the Shadow of Saturn Projected on the Ring

· 1854

This is not a pulp magazine cover. The source material is a page from the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (1854), page 163, containing J. Hippisley's observational paper describing Saturn's shadow cast upon its rings through a Newtonian reflector of 9¾-inch aperture. No cover art, cover-line typography, or genre illustration exists here to describe. The text records careful telescopic observation — a faint, curvilinear shadow line on Saturn's outer ring — alongside a cost recapitulation for an observatory building. No wall label for a pulp magazine cover can honestly be written from this document.

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Date
1854
Rights
Public domain — free to view, share, and reuse.
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