Papers, etc.

Some of Nicholson’s papers are at the Huntington Library.

Other References: Historical

Adams, Walter S., “Early Days at Mt. Wilson,” PASP 59, 212-231 and 285-304 (1947).

Hearnshaw, John B., The Measurement of Starlight: Two Centuries of Astronomical Photometry (Cambridge Univ. Press, Cambridge, UK, 1996).

Howard, Robert., “Eight Decades of Solar Research at Mount Wilson,” Solar Physics 100,171-87 (1985). Excerpt: The 150-Foot Solar Tower: History

Nicholson, Seth B., “Edison Pettit, 1889-1962,” PASP 74, 495 (1962).

Simmons, Michael, The History of Mount Wilson Observatory: Entering a New Era in Solar Research

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Other References:Scientific

Nicholson, Seth B., “Discovery of the Ninth Satellite of Jupiter,” PASP 26, 197-98 (1914).

Nicholson, Seth B., Discovery, Observations and Orbit of the Ninth Satellite of Jupiter (Ph.D. Dissertation, University of California, Berkeley, Lick Observatory Bulletin No. 271, Univ. of California Press, 1915).

Hale, George E., Ferdinand Ellerman, S.B. Nicholson, & A.H. Joy, “The Magnetic Polarity of Sun-Spots,” Ap.J. 49, 153-78 (1919).

St. John, Charles E. & Seth B. Nicholson, “Determination of the Solar Parallax from Spectroscopic Observations of Venus,” PASP 32, 332 (1920).

St. John, Charles E. & Seth B. Nicholson, “The Absence of Oxygen and Water-Vapor Lines in the Spectrum of Venus,” Ap.J. 56, 380 (1922).

Pettit, Edison & Seth B. Nicholson, “The Application of Vacuum Thermocouples to Problems in Astrophysics,” Ap. J. 56, 295-317 (1922).

Hale, George E. & Seth B. Nicholson, “The Law of Sun-Spot Polarity,” Ap.J. 62, 270-300 (1925) [The Hale-Nicholson Polarity Law].

Pettit, Edison & Seth B. Nicholson, “On the Theory of the Continuous Spectrum of the Corona,” Ap. J. 64, 136-41 (1926).

Nicholson, Seth B., “The Life of a Sun-spot,” PASP 38, 347-49 (1926).

Pettit, Edison & Seth B. Nicholson, “Stellar Radiation Measurements,” Ap. J. 68, 279-308 (1928).

Pettit, Edison & Seth B. Nicholson, “Lunar Radiation and Temperatures,” Ap. J. 71, 102-03 (1930).

Pettit, Edison & Seth B. Nicholson, “Spectral Energy-Curve of Sun-Spots,” Ap. J. 71, 153 (1930).

Nicholson, Seth B. & Nicholas U. Mayall, “Positions, Orbit, and Mass of Pluto,” Ap. J. 73, 1-12 (1931).

Nicholson, Seth B., A. van Maanen, & H.C. Willis, “A Preliminary Determination of the Mass of Neptune's Satellite’ PASP 43, 261-62 (1931).

Pettit, Edison & Seth B. Nicholson, “Measurements of the Radiation from Variable Stars,” Ap. J. 78, 320-53 (1933).

Nicholson, Seth B., “The Area of a Sun-Spot and the Intensity of Its Magnetic Field ,” PASP 45, 51-52 (1933).

Pettit, Edison & Seth B. Nicholson, “Radiation from the Planet Mercury,” Ap. J. 83, 84-102 (1936).

Hale, George Ellery & Seth Barnes Nicholson, Magnetic Observations of Sunspots, 1917-1924 (Carnegie Institution of Washington, Washington, DC, 1938). [sample page]

Nicholson, Seth B., “Two New Satellites of Jupiter,” PASP 50, 292 (1938).

Nicholson, Seth B., “Discovery of the Tenth and Eleventh Satellites of Jupiter and Observations of These and Other Satellites,” Astron. Journal 48, 129-32 (1939).

Nicholson, Seth B., “Solar Activity at the Eclipse of July 9, 1945,” PASP 57, 193 (1945).

Pettit, Edison & Seth B. Nicholson, “Temperatures on the Bright and Dark Sides of Venus,” PASP 60, 37 (1948).

Wulf, Oliver R. & Seth B. Nicholson, “On the Identification of the Solar M-Regions Associated with Terrestrial Magnetic Activity” PASP 67, 293 (1955).

Nicholson, Seth B., “A Sunspot Group in Exceptionally High Latitude,” PASP 69, 80-82 (1957).

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Other Works: Popularizations, Fiction, etc.

Nicholson, Seth B., “The Satellites in the Solar System,” PASP 32, 1399 (1920).

Nicholson, Seth B.., “The Earth's Magnetism,” A.S.P. Leaflet 2, #89, 153-56 (1936).

Nicholson, Seth B., “The Sun in Action,” PASP 55, 5-13 (1943).

Nicholson, Seth B.., “Large Sunspots,” A.S.P. Leaflet 5, #208, 57-64 (1946).

Nicholson, Seth B., “Jupiter XII,” Sky & Telescope 11, 79 (1952).

Nicholson, Seth B.., “Comets of Recent Years,” A.S.P. Leaflet 7, #338, 305-12 (1957).

Nicholson, Seth B.., “The Solar Cycle,” A.S.P. Leaflet 7, #348, 385-92 (1961).

Nicholson, Seth B.., “The Trojan Asteroids,” A.S.P. Leaflet 8, #381, 239-46 (1961).

Nicholson, Seth B.., “Jupiter,” A.S.P. Leaflet 9, #408, 57-64 (1963).

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