Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical SocietyPriestly and Weale, 1861 |
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... latitude , and obtained such an agreement with the coefficients used by me in the Lunar Tables , and derived from the previous theoretical calculations that the differences in the individual coefficients amount only to a few hundredths ...
... latitude , and obtained such an agreement with the coefficients used by me in the Lunar Tables , and derived from the previous theoretical calculations that the differences in the individual coefficients amount only to a few hundredths ...
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... latitude 33 ° 34 " 26 ' N. , longitude 35 ° 21 ′ 39 ′′ E. The latitude is determined from a mean of four meridian altitudes of a and B Libræ south of the zenith , and ten observations of Polaris , using the Nautical Almanac method . The ...
... latitude 33 ° 34 " 26 ' N. , longitude 35 ° 21 ′ 39 ′′ E. The latitude is determined from a mean of four meridian altitudes of a and B Libræ south of the zenith , and ten observations of Polaris , using the Nautical Almanac method . The ...
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... latitude and longitude of the Observatory were provisionally found to be Lat . 33 ° 51'41 " 1 S .; Long . 10h 4 595-86 W. The corrected values , as given by the Observations of Zenith Distances of Nautical Almanac Stars and the ...
... latitude and longitude of the Observatory were provisionally found to be Lat . 33 ° 51'41 " 1 S .; Long . 10h 4 595-86 W. The corrected values , as given by the Observations of Zenith Distances of Nautical Almanac Stars and the ...
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... latitude . It is composed of 258 prin- cipal triangles , with 10 measured bases , not reckoning among the 258 triangles the triangles which effectuate the junction of 24 , 25 the bases with the chain of triangles 31 C 22, 23 ...
... latitude . It is composed of 258 prin- cipal triangles , with 10 measured bases , not reckoning among the 258 triangles the triangles which effectuate the junction of 24 , 25 the bases with the chain of triangles 31 C 22, 23 ...
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... latitude which were in part repeated at a posterior epoch ; the total arc may be divided into seven parts , which are Arc of 1. Bessarabia Between Latitudes . Measured under direction of M. de Tenner In the Years 1844-1852 1835-1840 ...
... latitude which were in part repeated at a posterior epoch ; the total arc may be divided into seven parts , which are Arc of 1. Bessarabia Between Latitudes . Measured under direction of M. de Tenner In the Years 1844-1852 1835-1840 ...
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