Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, Volume 9Astronomical Society of the Pacific., 1897 |
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Page 25
... half times as far away as it was at opposition in December . Jupiter passed opposition on February 23d , and is above the horizon practically the whole night throughout March . It is retrograding , moving westward and northward about ...
... half times as far away as it was at opposition in December . Jupiter passed opposition on February 23d , and is above the horizon practically the whole night throughout March . It is retrograding , moving westward and northward about ...
Page 25
... half times as far away as it was at opposition in December . Jupiter passed opposition on February 23d , and is above the horizon practically the whole night throughout March . It is retrograding , moving westward and northward about ...
... half times as far away as it was at opposition in December . Jupiter passed opposition on February 23d , and is above the horizon practically the whole night throughout March . It is retrograding , moving westward and northward about ...
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... half a minute , very bright and light , but the clouds being thick obscured it presently . It had a very long tail and appeared to the E. S. E. " A real comet of this magnitude could not have escaped other observers . Clouds , however ...
... half a minute , very bright and light , but the clouds being thick obscured it presently . It had a very long tail and appeared to the E. S. E. " A real comet of this magnitude could not have escaped other observers . Clouds , however ...
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... half an hour my watch was compared with W. U. time , and the correction applied to the observed time . The first shock seemed heavier than the second , and both suggested an explosion rather than an earthquake . An examina- tion of the ...
... half an hour my watch was compared with W. U. time , and the correction applied to the observed time . The first shock seemed heavier than the second , and both suggested an explosion rather than an earthquake . An examina- tion of the ...
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... half loses his life . This precision is due , in part , to their being controlled by some central clock . But who controls that clock ? Who , with entire confidence that his statements are true , can say that the time it indicates is ...
... half loses his life . This precision is due , in part , to their being controlled by some central clock . But who controls that clock ? Who , with entire confidence that his statements are true , can say that the time it indicates is ...
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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