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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... obtained by combining the places in the Ten - Year Catalogue 1880'0 and the Five - Year Catalogue 1890'0 ( shortly to be published ) , and the differences plotted on paper as un- 1891 in Plate I , on which is also shown 8 . LIII . I ...
... obtained by combining the places in the Ten - Year Catalogue 1880'0 and the Five - Year Catalogue 1890'0 ( shortly to be published ) , and the differences plotted on paper as un- 1891 in Plate I , on which is also shown 8 . LIII . I ...
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... obtained at Greenwich- but from the data available an attempt was made to estimate the mean error on five dates in ... obtain the mean error at Full Moon in January - viz . a set of five days in each year comprising Full Moon and two ...
... obtained at Greenwich- but from the data available an attempt was made to estimate the mean error on five dates in ... obtain the mean error at Full Moon in January - viz . a set of five days in each year comprising Full Moon and two ...
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... obtained by a large instrument for correction of those with a small is of somewhat doubtful expediency . Next it was noticed that , considering the mean errors on any given date ( nine days before Full , five days before , & c . ) in ...
... obtained by a large instrument for correction of those with a small is of somewhat doubtful expediency . Next it was noticed that , considering the mean errors on any given date ( nine days before Full , five days before , & c . ) in ...
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... obtain a constant coefficient progressing according to the square of the time , and this they will never obtain for any great length of time , as the very causes which give rise to this acceleration are not of a constant nature ...
... obtain a constant coefficient progressing according to the square of the time , and this they will never obtain for any great length of time , as the very causes which give rise to this acceleration are not of a constant nature ...
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... obtained at such a sacrifice of advantages that could otherwise be obtained , that it might be worth while giving up the one for the others . The chief consideration in designing a mounting for such an immense telescope would be to keep ...
... obtained at such a sacrifice of advantages that could otherwise be obtained , that it might be worth while giving up the one for the others . The chief consideration in designing a mounting for such an immense telescope would be to keep ...
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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