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Kaipara and Waitemata Echo, 14 August 1914, Page 2

The scheme for taking a census o! the sfears has made great progres? at Greenwich Observatory. The stall has now enumerated all the stars on 206 photographic plates, representing about 52,000,000 stars This will probably be increased by another million when photographs of certain areas of the sky not yet (iealt with are received from Johannesburg Observatory. E ach pho . tographic plate was ruled off into twenty-Qvo sections of equal size The stars in a tiny square, about a hundredth part of the section were actually counted. An estimate was then made of the total number of stars on each plate