Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 53Priestley and Weale, 1893 Includes lists of additions to the society's library, usually separately paged. |
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... transit by Troughton & Simms . Application has several times been made to the Astronomer Royal , in connection with similar opera- tions , for a list of the Moon's errors on certain dates , as deter- mined by the Greenwich Transit ...
... transit by Troughton & Simms . Application has several times been made to the Astronomer Royal , in connection with similar opera- tions , for a list of the Moon's errors on certain dates , as deter- mined by the Greenwich Transit ...
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... transit of centre " will be too small , and the error of the tables consequently a positive quantity ; while before the Full the reverse is the case . Again , the adopted semi - diameter may be large owing to the spurious border , due ...
... transit of centre " will be too small , and the error of the tables consequently a positive quantity ; while before the Full the reverse is the case . Again , the adopted semi - diameter may be large owing to the spurious border , due ...
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... Transit Circle are printed . Corrections to R.A. of Moon in 1892. Predicted approximately from the errors 1883-1891 in Transit Circle Observations at Royal Observatory , Greenwich . Pred . Obs . O - P 8 S 8 May 3 + 0'14 ... 4 + 0'12 5 + ...
... Transit Circle are printed . Corrections to R.A. of Moon in 1892. Predicted approximately from the errors 1883-1891 in Transit Circle Observations at Royal Observatory , Greenwich . Pred . Obs . O - P 8 S 8 May 3 + 0'14 ... 4 + 0'12 5 + ...
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... transit . From these and other considerations the satellite is probably not over 100 miles in diameter . Taking everything into consideration the brightness at east and west elongations is the same . Mount Hamilton : 1892 October 24 ...
... transit . From these and other considerations the satellite is probably not over 100 miles in diameter . Taking everything into consideration the brightness at east and west elongations is the same . Mount Hamilton : 1892 October 24 ...
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... transit , it seems desirable to make it upon the same scale as Herschel's beautiful picture of that object published in the Cape observations , thus ensuring convenient comparison . This involved enlarging the original photograph , the ...
... transit , it seems desirable to make it upon the same scale as Herschel's beautiful picture of that object published in the Cape observations , thus ensuring convenient comparison . This involved enlarging the original photograph , the ...
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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