Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, Volume 9Astronomical Society of the Pacific., 1897 |
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... Monthly , San Francisco , California . The Record - Union , Sacramento , California . The Times , Los Angeles , California . The Tribune , Oakland , California . ON THE INFLUENCE OF CARBONIC ACID IN THE AIR UPON THE TEMPERATURE OF THE ...
... Monthly , San Francisco , California . The Record - Union , Sacramento , California . The Times , Los Angeles , California . The Tribune , Oakland , California . ON THE INFLUENCE OF CARBONIC ACID IN THE AIR UPON THE TEMPERATURE OF THE ...
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... month , and it comes to superior conjunction on April 1st . Venus is an evening star , having passed its greatest east elongation in February . During the month it draws a little . nearer the Sun , but sets more than three hours ...
... month , and it comes to superior conjunction on April 1st . Venus is an evening star , having passed its greatest east elongation in February . During the month it draws a little . nearer the Sun , but sets more than three hours ...
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... month toward the first magnitude star Regulus ( a Leonis ) , and at the close of the month is about three degrees east of the star . Saturn rises two hours earlier than during the corresponding period in February , and toward the close ...
... month toward the first magnitude star Regulus ( a Leonis ) , and at the close of the month is about three degrees east of the star . Saturn rises two hours earlier than during the corresponding period in February , and toward the close ...
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... month . Saturn rises at a little after 8 P.M. at the end of the month . It is in the constellation Scorpio , and moves about two degrees west- ward during April away from the second magnitude star ẞ Scorpii , which is a little east and ...
... month . Saturn rises at a little after 8 P.M. at the end of the month . It is in the constellation Scorpio , and moves about two degrees west- ward during April away from the second magnitude star ẞ Scorpii , which is a little east and ...
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... month its distance from us is about 130 , 000 , 000 miles , two and and one - 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 ...
... month its distance from us is about 130 , 000 , 000 miles , two and and one - 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 ...
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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