 | Repertory of arts, manufactures and agriculture - 1803 - 546 pages
...latter is a compass with four legs, which serves to reduce, to the true distance, the apparent distance of the centre of the moon from the centre of the sun or a star, and consequently to simplify the calculations for obtaining the longitude. New Method of... | |
 | United States Naval Observatory. Nautical Almanac Office - 1860 - 568 pages
...for January Г' 8" 10'" 18 28 49.2 The last page of the right ascensions and declinations contains the Phases of the Moon, and the dates of the. Moon's...Apogee, or least and greatest distances from the earth. The remaining six pages of the month are occupied by the Lunar Distances. They are given in the same... | |
 | United States. Congress. House - 1885 - 558 pages
...= 0h.09 are, for the right ascension 2».3072, and for the declination là". 002, which may be used for greater precision. Page XII contains also the...and from the four larger planets and certain fixed start-, as they would appear to an observer at the centre of the earth. They are given for every third... | |
 | Nathaniel Bowditch - 1888 - 704 pages
...distances, there is published in the Nautical Almanac, for every third hour of Greenwich mean time, the angular distances of the centre of the moon from the centre of the sun, from the brightest planets, Saturn, Jupiter, Mars, and Venus, and from nine bright fixed stars selected... | |
 | 1900 - 662 pages
...5,2ni=o.og1' are, for the right ascension 2.2058", and for the decimation + 12.275", which have been used for greater precision. Page XII contains also the...distances from the Earth. Pages XIII — XVIII contain the Lul,ar Distances, or the angular distances of the center of the Moon from the center of the Sun, from... | |
 | Royal Astronomical Society - 1913 - 850 pages
...solution of the equations for the determination of Ac. The following table gives the position-angles of the centre of the Moon from the centre of the Sun, and the distances, expressed in scale-reading and in seconds of arc, between the centres. TABLE II. No.... | |
 | United States Naval Observatory. Nautical Almanac Office - 1915 - 798 pages
...the sake of precision the differences here employed have been interpolated for 5m.2 = 0h.09. Page 117 contains also the Phases of the Moon and the dates of the Moon's Pages 118-133 contain for every Greenwich mean noon and midnight the Moon's Longitude and Latitude... | |
 | 1912 - 554 pages
...the sake of precision, the differences here employed have been interpolated for 5ln.2=oh.o9. [Ahn 15] Page XII contains also the Phases of the Moon and...least and greatest distances from the Earth. Pages 146-175 contain the geocentric ephemerides of all planets visible to the naked eye, namely, Mercury,... | |
 | United States Naval Observatory. Nautical Almanac Office - 1872 - 552 pages
...7™ .67 = OM3 are for the right ascension 2".0256, and for the declination 13".099, which may be used for greater precision. Page XII. contains also the...and greatest distances from the earth. Pages XIII. to XVI II., inclusive, contain the Lunar Distances, or the angular distances of the centre of the moon... | |
 | United States Naval Observatory. Nautical Almanac Office - 1884 - 558 pages
...5m.2 Ob.09 are, for the right ascension 2'.0062, and for the declination 5lI¿575, which may be used for greater precision. Page XII contains also the...the dates of the Moon's Perigee and Apogee, or least amid greatest distances from the earth. Pages XIII—XVIII contain the Lunar Distances, or the angular... | |
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... used for greater precision. Page XII contains also the Phases of the Moon and the dates of the Moon's Perigee and Apogee, or least and greatest distances from the earth. Pages... 
