Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical SocietyPriestly and Weale, 1861 |
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... longitude , which I have not yet quite completed . I must in fact execute in regard to these terms as great a labour as in the calculation of the lunar perturba- tions themselves . I must carry on the approximations until the values at ...
... longitude , which I have not yet quite completed . I must in fact execute in regard to these terms as great a labour as in the calculation of the lunar perturba- tions themselves . I must carry on the approximations until the values at ...
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... 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 longitude is deter- mined ...
... 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 longitude is deter- mined ...
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... Longitudes at Paris , and an Associate of the Society . On a New Observing Clock . By Prof. C. Piazzi Smyth , Astronomer ... longitude of the Observatory were provisionally found to be Lat . 33 ° 51'41 " 1 S .; Long . 10h 4 595-86 W. The ...
... Longitudes at Paris , and an Associate of the Society . On a New Observing Clock . By Prof. C. Piazzi Smyth , Astronomer ... longitude of the Observatory were provisionally found to be Lat . 33 ° 51'41 " 1 S .; Long . 10h 4 595-86 W. The ...
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... longitude whereof has been determined with eminent precision , by the chrono- metric comparison in the year 1854 , between Dorpat and Pulkova . In a statistic and chronological point of view , disregarding the observations of latitude ...
... longitude whereof has been determined with eminent precision , by the chrono- metric comparison in the year 1854 , between Dorpat and Pulkova . In a statistic and chronological point of view , disregarding the observations of latitude ...
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... longitude at the time t is integral changing the form of the first equation , we have & + n t + n2 ť2 + & c . where ɛ , n , ny and , moreover , n2 de + wide - { w + 252 - ( d ) " be + m2n2 { 3P + ? d ? ( c + faqs ) } , § + n2 de = { n2 ...
... longitude at the time t is integral changing the form of the first equation , we have & + n t + n2 ť2 + & c . where ɛ , n , ny and , moreover , n2 de + wide - { w + 252 - ( d ) " be + m2n2 { 3P + ? d ? ( c + faqs ) } , § + n2 de = { n2 ...
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