title: Bright & Dark Nebulae: An Observers Guide to the Clouds of the Milky Way Galaxy
author: Prof Richard P. Wilds
description: Prof. Richard P. Wilds Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Lab url: http://iota.jhuapl.edu/watts.htm Mr. Wilds began his early publication efforts writing general articles for Deep Sky Monthly on the topics of observing star clusters, nebulae and galaxies for a general readership. Later Mr. Wilds turned his efforts to the publication of more scientifically technical articles for professional readers through such publications as Astronomy and Astrophysics on the topics of Solar System research such as mapping the Marginal Zone of the Moon, mapping asteroids and improving the Ephemerids of the moons of the outer Solar System. These activities allowed Mr. Wilds the opportunity to work in worldwide scientific efforts with such organizations as the Bureau des Longitudes, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory and the Institut de Mecanique Celeste, Paris, France. He has worked on the Galileo Mission to Jupiter and the Cassini Mission to Saturn and allowed NASA to save precious fuel in its exploration of Jupiter, Saturn and their moons. All of these projects have been noted in publications - i.e. The Occultation Newsletter, The Astronomy and Astrophysics Supplement Series and the Annual Report of The International Lunar Occultation Centre from Tokyo, Japan as well as others and led to Mr. Wilds election to the American Astronomical Society  Division for Planetary Sciences and Historical Astronomy Division. Some of his work is found in the Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers, edited by Dr. Thomas Hockey and published by Springer in 2007 and 2014. Mr. Wilds was awarded the 2017 Donald E. Osterbrock Book Prize, for his contributions to the BEA by the American Astronomical Society, Historical Astronomy Division. Throughout this time Mr. Wilds has held various collegiate level Adjunct Instructor positions that have included teaching classes in History, Astronomy and Education.
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  The Adepts on the Nebular Theory v. 13.11, www.philaletheians.co.uk, 23 August 2017 
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  The Adepts on 
  the Nebular Theory 
   
   
  
  PLANETARY ROUNDS AND GLOBES SERIES 
  THE ADEPTS ON THE NEBULAR THEORY 
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  Do the Adepts deny the Nebular Theory? 
  From Blavatsky Collected Writings, [ADDRESSING ENQUIRY SUGGESTED BY SINNETT’S ESOTERIC BUDDHISM] 
  V pp. 150-55. 
  No; they do not deny its general propositions, nor the approximate truths of the Sci-
  entific hypotheses. They only deny the completeness of the present, as well as the 
  entire error of the many so-called “exploded” old theories, which, during the last cen-
  tury, have followed each other in such rapid succession. For instance: while denying 
  with Laplace, Herschel and others, that the variable patches of light, perceived on the 
  nebulous background of the galaxy ever belonged to remote worlds in the process of 
  formatio