Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical SocietyPriestly and Weale, 1861 |
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Page 25
Recent Publications . Dr. WOLFERS : on the Right Ascensions and Declinations of. 24 , 25 the bases with the chain of triangles . The distance between the extreme points , measured on the great circle joining them , is 2700 versts = 2880 ...
Recent Publications . Dr. WOLFERS : on the Right Ascensions and Declinations of. 24 , 25 the bases with the chain of triangles . The distance between the extreme points , measured on the great circle joining them , is 2700 versts = 2880 ...
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... Declinations of Fundamental Stars observed at the Radcliffe Observatory , compared with those contained in the Tabulæ Reductionum . Name of Star . « Andromeda > Pegasi ... & Persei & Tauri « Auriga ẞ Orionis 6 Tauri ... 58 00 00 -0 ° 02 ...
... Declinations of Fundamental Stars observed at the Radcliffe Observatory , compared with those contained in the Tabulæ Reductionum . Name of Star . « Andromeda > Pegasi ... & Persei & Tauri « Auriga ẞ Orionis 6 Tauri ... 58 00 00 -0 ° 02 ...
Page 40
... declination of the Sun and planet , with a wire micrometer , each observation in R.A. being made on five wires , and five different measures having been taken of the difference of declination of Mercury and the Sun's northern limb . But ...
... declination of the Sun and planet , with a wire micrometer , each observation in R.A. being made on five wires , and five different measures having been taken of the difference of declination of Mercury and the Sun's northern limb . But ...
Page 55
... declination wire was used in a fixed position , and the reading of one microscope of the hour - circle and of one microscope of the declination- circle was taken for each observation of the comet and the stars of comparison . These ...
... declination wire was used in a fixed position , and the reading of one microscope of the hour - circle and of one microscope of the declination- circle was taken for each observation of the comet and the stars of comparison . These ...
Page 58
... declination axis . Two curved streams of light are still seen flowing from it , the lower one sickle - shaped , but not so well defined as previously , cutting the declination wire at an angle of about 60 ° ; the upper arc ill defined ...
... declination axis . Two curved streams of light are still seen flowing from it , the lower one sickle - shaped , but not so well defined as previously , cutting the declination wire at an angle of about 60 ° ; the upper arc ill defined ...
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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