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RGO Archives/RGO 45 contains:
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268 Number unassigned
269 Script for 'The Night Sky in December'
270 Number unassigned
271 Script for 'The Night Sky in February'
272 Script for 'The Night Sky in March'
273 Script for 'The Night Sky in April'
274 Script for 'The Night Sky in May'
275 Script for 'The Night Sky in June'
276 Script for 'The Night Sky in July'
277 Script for 'The Night Sky in August'
278 Script for 'The Night Sky in September'
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Papers of John Guy Porter

Title Script for 'The Night Sky in April'
Reference RGO 45/273
Covering Dates Apr. 1953
Extent and Medium 5 pages
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A copy of Porter's script for 'The Night Sky in April' on Coma Berenice; the Plough, Leo, Denebola, Cor Caroli, and the legend of Berenice's hair; Saturn, its rings and their composition according to James Clerk Maxwell; the 1933 discovery of the white spot on Saturn by Will Hay; the internal composition of Saturn, hydrogen in a metallic phase and the difference between the gas giants and terrestrial planets; and the mathematical nature of modern astronomy.

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Maxwell, James Clerk (1831-1879) physicist
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