Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical SocietyPriestly and Weale, 1861 |
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... clock , as now locked up in a closet and used only to regulate the observing clock , remains in a more equable temperature . Major A. Strange , late Astronomical Assistant in the Great Trigonometrical Survey of India , has sent to the ...
... clock , as now locked up in a closet and used only to regulate the observing clock , remains in a more equable temperature . Major A. Strange , late Astronomical Assistant in the Great Trigonometrical Survey of India , has sent to the ...
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... clock , accurately corrected and rated by sextant observations . At 22h 15m 571 the planet was estimated to be just its own diameter from the Sun's limb . At 22h 16m 135 it was clearly within one diameter . At 22h 18m 59 , first contact ...
... clock , accurately corrected and rated by sextant observations . At 22h 15m 571 the planet was estimated to be just its own diameter from the Sun's limb . At 22h 16m 135 it was clearly within one diameter . At 22h 18m 59 , first contact ...
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... clock , which was 333 fast . The fine line of light appeared broken at 12h 33m 98 , but it instantly united again ... clock in the office - window of the Magnetic Telegraph Company . This clock is controlled from the Liverpool ...
... clock , which was 333 fast . The fine line of light appeared broken at 12h 33m 98 , but it instantly united again ... clock in the office - window of the Magnetic Telegraph Company . This clock is controlled from the Liverpool ...
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... clock corrected by transit of Leonis the same morning , and by Fomalhaut and Markab the previous evening . First break ( pretty good ) ... Last contact ( middling ) ... Grantham , December 5 , 1851 . h m S 12 42 38.03Apparent Local Sid ...
... clock corrected by transit of Leonis the same morning , and by Fomalhaut and Markab the previous evening . First break ( pretty good ) ... Last contact ( middling ) ... Grantham , December 5 , 1851 . h m S 12 42 38.03Apparent Local Sid ...
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... clock , and immediately prepared to observe it . Its appearance , notwith- standing the strong daylight , was most brilliant . To the naked eye the condensation of light about the head was so great as to bear comparison with the Moon ...
... clock , and immediately prepared to observe it . Its appearance , notwith- standing the strong daylight , was most brilliant . To the naked eye the condensation of light about the head was so great as to bear comparison with the Moon ...
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2r+g Airy Alhazen Annex appears April Astronomer Royal bright Calculation CAYLEY clock Comet computed corrected crater Decl declination diameter difference distance Ditto ditto edge Ephemeris equations Equatoreal error excentricity eye-piece Greenwich inches aperture instrument July June Jupiter Jupiter's Satellites latitude light limb longitude Lunar m² e m² n² Mars Mean Solar measures Memoir meridian Minor Planets Monthly Notices Moon Moon's Mean Motion N.P.D. from Observation Nautical Almanac nearly Nebula nucleus Number of Observations obtained Occultation orbit parallax perihelion photographs Prof R.A. from Observation Radcliffe Catalogue radiation Right Ascension ring Royal Observatory Saturn Secular Acceleration shadow Sirius Small Planets Society Solar Eclipse soleil stars Struve Sun's disk surface T. W. Webb taches telescope term thermometer tion Transit of Mercury Ursa Variable Variable Stars W. R. Dawes Weisse