Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 30

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Priestley and Weale, 1870
Includes lists of additions to the Society's library, usually separately paged.
 

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Page 222 - ... from the circumference of the moon, straight massive silvery rays, seeming distinct and separate from each other, to a distance of two or three diameters of the lunar disc ; the whole spectacle showing as upon a background of diffused...
Page 193 - Young, while examining a part of the prominence at +146°, saw C, near D, a line at 1250 ± 20, and another at 1350 ± 20, and the 1474 K line very bright, but not equal to C and D; ; but...
Page 54 - Way double, which obviously corresponds to the relations exhibited by the two loops. Following the wider loop, we see that the double part of the Milky Way on this side extends nearly through a complete semicircular arc. The Coal-sack is explicable as due to the apparent intercrossing of the two contorted streams which really are at different distances from the eye.* The break in the further branch seems readily explicable as due to the great distance of a portion of this branch. But here the theory...
Page 199 - Now this can only be effected when the prisms are adjusted to the minimum angle of deviation for the particular...
Page 143 - Previous to the formation of the ring, the face of the moon was perfectly black; but on looking at it, through the telescope, during the annulus, the circumference was tinged with a reddish purple colour, which extended over the whole disc, but increased in density of colour according to the proximity to the centre; so as to be in that part nearly black.
Page 84 - The installation of the Duke of Wellington as Chancellor of the University of Oxford was nothing, in point of bustle and turmoil, to the installation of Mrs.
Page 193 - There may have been dark lines of course, but with so faint a spectrum and the jaws of the slit wide apart, they might escape notice.
Page 105 - simply the last glimpse of the Sun's edge cut by the peaks of lunar mountains into irregular spots.
Page 58 - Huygenian eye-piece of which the eye-glass (supposed to be plano-convex) is made broader than is strictly necessary for telescopic vision, causing it to press by its convex surface into a concave cup at the eye-end of the eye-piece, and allowing it to roll in that concavity, thus presenting different parts of its convex surface, though always in the same form and position, to the rays of light which come from the field-glass, but presenting to the eye a plane surface which in one position of the...

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