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“Nova,” they said in quick unison.
Riggs cut the motor, and backed the
film up, running it through one frame
at a time. "There it is,” he said.
“First photographically detectable
one hundred and four days after that
observatory was serviced.” He
started the projector again and the
two watched the image of the nova
grow rapidly, then fade with astounding suddenness.
“Umph,” Hawley grunted. “That
was a quicky. How long did it last ?”
Riggs was reading the date on the
frame. “Four hundred and twenty
terrestrial days between appearance
and disappearance, photographically,
but it was really quicker than that.
It had sunk to the twentieth magnitude in two hundred days, more or
less. Sort of looks like Hunter’s hypothesis might be correct, doesn’t it ?”
Hawley shook his head slowly as
the rest of the reel ran through the
projector without event. “I don’t
know. I’m not up on nova theory.
I stick fairly close to home, with this
navigational theory. That’s my chief
interest. He switched on the lights
in the tiny projection room. “I suppose I’ll be teaching twelve months in
the year pretty soon,” he observed,
not looking at Riggs.
Compare to the Photoelectric Telescope (Photoelectric Eyes) from The Cometeers (1936) by Jack Williamson, the
Liquid Mirror Telescope from Old Faithful (1934) by Raymond Z. Gallun, the
electro-telescope from Blood of the Moon (1936) by Ray Cummings, the
ultra-telescope ray from The Moon Weed (1931) by Harl Vincent and the
hyperspace beacon from The Repairman (1959) by Harry Harrison. Comment/Join this discussion ( 0 ) | RSS/XML | Blog This | Additional
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