Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical SocietyPriestly and Weale, 1858 |
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... nearly five years ; but a family loss by the hand of death has for the last three months deprived me of the leisure I had counted on , and compels me to confine the present paper to the publication of a single feature which the assem ...
... nearly five years ; but a family loss by the hand of death has for the last three months deprived me of the leisure I had counted on , and compels me to confine the present paper to the publication of a single feature which the assem ...
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... nearly seconds of time is found for an excessively large value of the second term of the difference , or secondary correction , and it may therefore also be safely neglected in nautical practice . NOTE . The following are the reductions ...
... nearly seconds of time is found for an excessively large value of the second term of the difference , or secondary correction , and it may therefore also be safely neglected in nautical practice . NOTE . The following are the reductions ...
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... nearly disappeared when the images were placed side by side , and the other when they were placed end to end . I found , upon com- paring these effects with those produced on an image reflected from unsilvered glass , that the light is ...
... nearly disappeared when the images were placed side by side , and the other when they were placed end to end . I found , upon com- paring these effects with those produced on an image reflected from unsilvered glass , that the light is ...
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... nearly as possible equal to twice the width of the tail measured through the point bisecting that distance .- [ W ... nearly at full . 66 " Aug. 27. Condensed nucleus . Aug. 30. Tail to north . Sept. 7. Very conspicuous to the naked eye ...
... nearly as possible equal to twice the width of the tail measured through the point bisecting that distance .- [ W ... nearly at full . 66 " Aug. 27. Condensed nucleus . Aug. 30. Tail to north . Sept. 7. Very conspicuous to the naked eye ...
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... nearly round , surmounted by a luminous sector , which on the side towards the tail was bounded by two arcs tending to form a cusp at the nucleus , and on the other side by a semicircular arch , brighter than the space between it and ...
... nearly round , surmounted by a luminous sector , which on the side towards the tail was bounded by two arcs tending to form a cusp at the nucleus , and on the other side by a semicircular arch , brighter than the space between it and ...
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Adams Admiral Smyth angle Apparent N.P.D. Apparent R.A. h m appearance April Arcturus Astronomer Royal axis bright calculated Captain Carrington Catalogue centre coefficient comparison computed correction crater dark determined diameter direction disk distance Donati's Comet eclipse edge elements envelope ephemeris epoch equations equatoreal error exhibited Geminus Greenwich instrument Jupiter l'éclipse l'équation l'on latitude length light longitude luminous lunar Lune magnitude Mean Solar measures Memoirs meridian Minor Planets mirror Monthly Notices moon moon's limb mouvement Nautical Almanac nearly Norman Pogson nucleus object-glass obtained occultation October orbit paper perihelion phenomena polar position present Prof Professor proper motions rays réfractions remarkable right ascensions ring Royal Observatory Saturn séculaire seen Sept Sheepshanks side Society solar spots standard stars sun's surface T. W. Webb tail telescope theory tion Variable Star visible volume