Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical SocietyPriestly and Weale, 1861 |
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... present re - calculation , been calculated by my former computer , who has made so many errors , with an incorrect coefficient of ( c - 18 ) . The influence of this error , however , is so insig- nificant that it can , even in the year ...
... present re - calculation , been calculated by my former computer , who has made so many errors , with an incorrect coefficient of ( c - 18 ) . The influence of this error , however , is so insig- nificant that it can , even in the year ...
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... present remarks are confined . The telescope employed had an aperture of 72mm.5 ( 2.9 inches nearly ) , a focal length of 800mm ( 32 inches nearly ) , and was used with a magnifying power 47. The micrometer consisted of a glass plate in ...
... present remarks are confined . The telescope employed had an aperture of 72mm.5 ( 2.9 inches nearly ) , a focal length of 800mm ( 32 inches nearly ) , and was used with a magnifying power 47. The micrometer consisted of a glass plate in ...
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... present series , continued from Nov. 15th , 1860 , and brought down to Oct. 31st of the present year , consists of about seventy - three drawings of the whole solar disk , as magnified about 30 diameters , besides upwards of 200 ...
... present series , continued from Nov. 15th , 1860 , and brought down to Oct. 31st of the present year , consists of about seventy - three drawings of the whole solar disk , as magnified about 30 diameters , besides upwards of 200 ...
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... present time , but which are now unnecessary on the establish- ment of the Carrington Transit Circle . The Transit Instrument has an object - glass of 4 inches clear aperture , with a focal length of 8 feet , and is an excellent in ...
... present time , but which are now unnecessary on the establish- ment of the Carrington Transit Circle . The Transit Instrument has an object - glass of 4 inches clear aperture , with a focal length of 8 feet , and is an excellent in ...
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... present Abstract explained in so far only as it presents any peculiarity . I take n , the actual mean motion of the Moon at a given epoch ; with a like value for Q , and observing that the equations of motion are satisfied when de , dv ...
... present Abstract explained in so far only as it presents any peculiarity . I take n , the actual mean motion of the Moon at a given epoch ; with a like value for Q , and observing that the equations of motion are satisfied when de , dv ...
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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