Stars
Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:
3 notes relating to radio noise from the stars and mesons, c. 1946
The material consists of 'Radio Noise from the Stars', an 11 page manuscript draft for a popular talk or broadcast, no date, c. 1946; a 3 page typescript note on similar subject; and a 3 page note on mesons, this one probably not by Edward Appleton.
Manuscript book entitled 'Catalogue of double stars, clusters and nebulae'
Notes on stars and accompanying verse, 29 October 1872
Notes on stars including that Mainneag or Maidneag is the morning star, that 'Grioglachan gets its course on S[aint] Michael & loses it on new years night' and that 'An t-Iasgair' is the star of the East at night. There is also a short verse beginning 'Ni Ri Eangain 'sa 3 len'.
Story about ghosts at Howmore cemetery and accompanying place-name note, 29 October 1872
Vocabulary note for Grigne [colony or number] and accompanying verse, 10 February 1870
Vocabulary note probably collected from Margaret MacDonald, aged 79 years, Malacleit/Malaclete, Uibhist a Tuath/North Uist for Grigne describing it as a colony or a number and in some places stating that a sieve was called a grigne. What appears to be a verse reads 'Rionag an Righ, Rionag na madaine, Rionag a bhauch[aille], Nighean ri mheangain sa triuir leam sa cu sa gille sa cocair.'