Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 53; Volumes 1892-1893Priestley and Weale, 1893 Includes lists of additions to the Society's library, usually separately paged. |
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... longitude . : It was decided that he should determine the requisite longi tudes by Moon - culminations , taking with him a portable transit by Troughton & Simms . Application has several times been made to the Astronomer Royal , in ...
... longitude . : It was decided that he should determine the requisite longi tudes by Moon - culminations , taking with him a portable transit by Troughton & Simms . Application has several times been made to the Astronomer Royal , in ...
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... longitude for intervals of a quarter of a century . I then through- out gave each equation of condition the weight of unity , as I look with suspicion on assigning different weights to the observations . I took out from the theory all ...
... longitude for intervals of a quarter of a century . I then through- out gave each equation of condition the weight of unity , as I look with suspicion on assigning different weights to the observations . I took out from the theory all ...
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... longitude of perigee . 80 = + 64'9 = " " " node . 22 While ST , the correction to the Moon's parallax , is zero , or , in other words , Hansen's tables require no correction for this element . Nov. 1892. Dr. Common , On the Best Form of ...
... longitude of perigee . 80 = + 64'9 = " " " node . 22 While ST , the correction to the Moon's parallax , is zero , or , in other words , Hansen's tables require no correction for this element . Nov. 1892. Dr. Common , On the Best Form of ...
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... longitude work , to give a constant probable error for the clock correction of each night and to combine the different nights ' work according to these probable errors . This is equivalent to taking the clock rate as known perfectly ...
... longitude work , to give a constant probable error for the clock correction of each night and to combine the different nights ' work according to these probable errors . This is equivalent to taking the clock rate as known perfectly ...
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... 18.25 121 55 Equatoreal . 121 36 37.8 Cordoba Zone , 107'43 ; Stone , 770 . 29 I 39 1.95 121 16 93 Cordoba Zone , 107 : 20 . Galactic Longitudes and Latitudes of the brighter Stars in a Dec. 1892 . 73 Winnecke's Periodical Comet .
... 18.25 121 55 Equatoreal . 121 36 37.8 Cordoba Zone , 107'43 ; Stone , 770 . 29 I 39 1.95 121 16 93 Cordoba Zone , 107 : 20 . Galactic Longitudes and Latitudes of the brighter Stars in a Dec. 1892 . 73 Winnecke's Periodical Comet .
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Academy Andromedæ angle appeared Aquilæ Astronomer Royal Auriga Bisection bright Burnham Camelop Canis Carinæ Cassiopeia Catalogue Centauri centre Cephei cluster coefficient comet comparison stars correction Cygni Dembowski determined diameter distance double stars E. E. Barnard eclipse epoch Equat equatoreal exposure Galactic Long Geminorum Greenwich Greenwich Mean instrument Isaac Roberts June Jupiter Lalande lens Lick Observatory London longitude lunar Lupi Magn magnitude me²e mean measures Meteorological micrometer Monocerotis Monthly Notices Moon motion nebula Nova Auriga observations obtained Ophiuchi orbit Orionis paper parallax Paris period Persei photographs planet plates position probable error Professor proper motion Puppis Refraction right ascension Royal Observatory S. W. Burnham Sagittarii satellite Saturn Schiaparelli Scorpii seen Sept solar spectra spectroscope spectrum stellar Struve Tauri telescope thermometer tion transit transit circle Velorum ΙΟ