Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical SocietyPriestly and Weale, 1858 |
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... length for the eye to take it in as a whole ; and , accordingly , in the map lithographed the scale in longitude is reduced in the proportion of 72 to 1 , as compared with the scale in latitude , and the delineations of spots compressed ...
... length for the eye to take it in as a whole ; and , accordingly , in the map lithographed the scale in longitude is reduced in the proportion of 72 to 1 , as compared with the scale in latitude , and the delineations of spots compressed ...
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... Length of the tail equal to the distance from a Ursa Majoris to a point equidistant from ( and η Ursa Majoris . The tail curved ; its convexity to the left . - [ G. B. A. ] Oct. 2 , 7h . The night favourable . The comet's head much ...
... Length of the tail equal to the distance from a Ursa Majoris to a point equidistant from ( and η Ursa Majoris . The tail curved ; its convexity to the left . - [ G. B. A. ] Oct. 2 , 7h . The night favourable . The comet's head much ...
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... length of the semidiameter of the nucleus beyond it . - [ R. M. ] Oct. 15 , 6h 30m . The outer parabolic disk much in the same state as on Oct. 11 , but a considerable change has taken place with respect to the inner one . The nucleus ...
... length of the semidiameter of the nucleus beyond it . - [ R. M. ] Oct. 15 , 6h 30m . The outer parabolic disk much in the same state as on Oct. 11 , but a considerable change has taken place with respect to the inner one . The nucleus ...
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... length , as well as I could judge . " Sept. 24. Comet very brilliant ; nucleus well defined ; the luminous sector well seen and brightest at the edges . " A sketch represented the nucleus as nearly round , surmounted by a luminous ...
... length , as well as I could judge . " Sept. 24. Comet very brilliant ; nucleus well defined ; the luminous sector well seen and brightest at the edges . " A sketch represented the nucleus as nearly round , surmounted by a luminous ...
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... length . " Oct. 11 , 6. Greater angular separation of the streams of the tail ; the hood not so definitely bounded , the central brightness rounder , probably owing to the state of the atmo- sphere , the comet being low . " A sketch ...
... length . " Oct. 11 , 6. Greater angular separation of the streams of the tail ; the hood not so definitely bounded , the central brightness rounder , probably owing to the state of the atmo- sphere , the comet being low . " A sketch ...
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