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RGO Archives/RGO 45 contains:
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258 Script for 'The Night Sky in January'
259 Number unassigned
260 Script for 'The Night Sky in March'
261 Script for 'The Night Sky in April'
262 Script for 'The Night Sky in May'
263 Script for 'The Night Sky in June'
264 Script for 'The Night Sky in July'
265 Number unassigned
266 Script for 'The Night Sky in September'
267 Script for 'The Night Sky in October'
268 Number unassigned
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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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