Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, Volume 9Astronomical Society of the Pacific., 1897 |
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Page 26
... transit over the Greenwich meridian . To find the local mean time of transit for any other meridian , the time given in the table must be corrected by adding or subtracting the change per day , multiplied by the fraction whose numerator ...
... transit over the Greenwich meridian . To find the local mean time of transit for any other meridian , the time given in the table must be corrected by adding or subtracting the change per day , multiplied by the fraction whose numerator ...
Page 27
... transit , and are intended as only a rough guide . They may be in error by a minute or two for the given latitude , and for latitudes differing much from 40 ° they may be several minutes out . 1897 . PHASES OF THE MOON , P. S. T. New ...
... transit , and are intended as only a rough guide . They may be in error by a minute or two for the given latitude , and for latitudes differing much from 40 ° they may be several minutes out . 1897 . PHASES OF THE MOON , P. S. T. New ...
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... transit of 76mm aperture , by BAMBERG , which is the finest instrument of its type I have ever seen . In the extreme left of the cut is seen the roof of the Solar Observatory , constructed at his own expense by Professor WATSON , and ...
... transit of 76mm aperture , by BAMBERG , which is the finest instrument of its type I have ever seen . In the extreme left of the cut is seen the roof of the Solar Observatory , constructed at his own expense by Professor WATSON , and ...
Page 72
... transit over the Greenwich meridian . To find the local mean time of transit for any other meridian , the time given in the table must be corrected by adding or subtracting the change per day , multiplied by the fraction whose numerator ...
... transit over the Greenwich meridian . To find the local mean time of transit for any other meridian , the time given in the table must be corrected by adding or subtracting the change per day , multiplied by the fraction whose numerator ...
Page 73
... transit , and are intended as only a rough guide . They may be in error by a minute or two for the given latitude , and for latitudes differing much from 40 ° they may be several minutes out . 1897 . May 1 . II . H. PHASES OF THE MOON ...
... transit , and are intended as only a rough guide . They may be in error by a minute or two for the given latitude , and for latitudes differing much from 40 ° they may be several minutes out . 1897 . May 1 . II . H. PHASES OF THE MOON ...
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aperture April Arcturian Astronomical Society Atlas atmosphere August Board of Directors bright BRUCE Medal C. D. PERRINE Capellan carbonic acid catalogue comet Comet-Medal Committee Committee-Messrs constellation December Decl Declination degrees eastward diameter dome eclipse EDWARD equatorial F. R. ZIEL feet Greenwich Hamilton Harvard College Observatory HOLDEN inches instruments interstellar medium January July June Jupiter latitude LEWIS SWIFT Library Lick Observatory longitude magnitude March Mars meeting Mercury meridian Messrs meteor minutes Miss O'HALLORAN MOLERA month Moon morning star motion Mount Hamilton moves nebulæ Neptune November Oakland observations October Pacific penumbra photographic planets plates President prisms Prof Professor proper-motion Publications quantity of carbonic R. G. AITKEN San Francisco Saturn SCHAEBERLE Secretary seen Sept September Shadow touching Sirian solar spectra spectroscope sun-spot telescope tion Transit umbra University Observatory Uranus Venus W. H. S. MONCK WILLIAM ALVORD Yerkes Observatory Yerkes telescope ΙΟ