Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical SocietyPriestly and Weale, 1861 |
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... shadow over the African continent , in the eclipse of 1861 , Dec. 31 , has been derived from accurate calculations founded upon the Tables of Le Verrier and Hansen , assuming the diameters of Sun and Moon as there adopted : · Green ...
... shadow over the African continent , in the eclipse of 1861 , Dec. 31 , has been derived from accurate calculations founded upon the Tables of Le Verrier and Hansen , assuming the diameters of Sun and Moon as there adopted : · Green ...
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... shadow within the larger crater . III . A crater north of Cichus , given in the small German map , but singularly omitted in the large map . There is a very obscure marking in the neighbourhood of the fault next to be described , where ...
... shadow within the larger crater . III . A crater north of Cichus , given in the small German map , but singularly omitted in the large map . There is a very obscure marking in the neighbourhood of the fault next to be described , where ...
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... shadow . The breadth of the former could not have been much more than o " 04 . 66 Only four satellites could be seen , viz . , Titan , at some distance , and the three shown in the drawing , of which the outermost is Tethys , and the ...
... shadow . The breadth of the former could not have been much more than o " 04 . 66 Only four satellites could be seen , viz . , Titan , at some distance , and the three shown in the drawing , of which the outermost is Tethys , and the ...
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... shadow , which softened into the former . This is also the character of all shadows from objects on our Earth . At 2h the Moon's edge undulated rapidly , while the Sun's edge remained comparatively tranquil . About this time also , the ...
... shadow , which softened into the former . This is also the character of all shadows from objects on our Earth . At 2h the Moon's edge undulated rapidly , while the Sun's edge remained comparatively tranquil . About this time also , the ...
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... Shadow of the Ring of Saturn . ditto Ditto Observations of Small Planets , & c . Capt . Jacob . Mr. Lassell . Mr. Airy . On the Variation of Argus . Mr. Abbott . " On the Probable Identification of Anthelm's Variable of 1670. Mr. Hind ...
... Shadow of the Ring of Saturn . ditto Ditto Observations of Small Planets , & c . Capt . Jacob . Mr. Lassell . Mr. Airy . On the Variation of Argus . Mr. Abbott . " On the Probable Identification of Anthelm's Variable of 1670. Mr. Hind ...
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