Note 5 — Chapter II · RELATIVE MERITS OF LARGE AND SMALL TELESCOPES.
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Such objects show considerable glare in a very large instrument. The advent of Jupiter into the field of the 6-foot has been compared to the brightness of a coach-lamp. The outer satellite of Mars was seen twice with this instrument in 1877, “but the glare of the planet was found too strong to allow of good measures being taken.”