Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, Volume 9Astronomical Society of the Pacific., 1897 |
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Page 24
... hour before sunrise , and may possibly be seen if the weather conditions are very favorable , but its distance from ... hours after sunset at the end of the month . On March 21st it comes to its maximum brilliancy , and all through the ...
... hour before sunrise , and may possibly be seen if the weather conditions are very favorable , but its distance from ... hours after sunset at the end of the month . On March 21st it comes to its maximum brilliancy , and all through the ...
Page 25
... hour after the Sun , and at the end of the month it sets nearly two hours later . This is the best time of the year for seeing the planet as an evening star . Venus sets about three hours later than the Sun on April 1st ; but it rapidly ...
... hour after the Sun , and at the end of the month it sets nearly two hours later . This is the best time of the year for seeing the planet as an evening star . Venus sets about three hours later than the Sun on April 1st ; but it rapidly ...
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... hours , and whose denominator is 24. This correction is seldom much more than 1 " . To find the standard time for the phenomenon , correct the local mean time by adding the differ- ence between standard and local time if the place is ...
... hours , and whose denominator is 24. This correction is seldom much more than 1 " . To find the standard time for the phenomenon , correct the local mean time by adding the differ- ence between standard and local time if the place is ...
Page 25
... hour after the Sun , and at the end of the month it sets nearly two hours later . This is the best time of the year for seeing the planet as an evening star . Venus sets about three hours later than the Sun on April 1st ; but it rapidly ...
... hour after the Sun , and at the end of the month it sets nearly two hours later . This is the best time of the year for seeing the planet as an evening star . Venus sets about three hours later than the Sun on April 1st ; but it rapidly ...
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... hour after sunset , and Dr. BRAUNER ascribed them to some peculiar reflec- tion in the upper regions of the atmosphere . This explanation , however , is not applicable to a similar phenomenon described by Mr. LYON BROWNE , of Shrewsbury ...
... hour after sunset , and Dr. BRAUNER ascribed them to some peculiar reflec- tion in the upper regions of the atmosphere . This explanation , however , is not applicable to a similar phenomenon described by Mr. LYON BROWNE , of Shrewsbury ...
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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