Computations.—A more accurate determination of the phases, as visible at any point of the Earth's surface, may be obtained from the Besselian elements which are given for every ten minutes of Greenwich mean time. Their geometric signification is as... The American Ephemeris and Nautical Almanac - Page 715by United States Naval Observatory. Nautical Almanac Office - 1911Full view - About this book
| United States. Congress. House - 1885 - 558 pages
...point of the earth's surface may be obtained from the Besselian elements which are given for every ten minutes of Greenwich mean time. Their geometric signification...follows: — Let us imagine a plane passing through the centre of the earth, perpendicular to the right line joining the centres of the sun and moon. This... | |
| 1895 - 578 pages
...point of the earth's surface may be obtained from the Besselian elements which are given for every ten minutes of Greenwich mean time. Their geometric signification...follows: — Let us imagine a plane passing through the centre of the earth, perpendicular to the right line joining the centres of the sun and moon. This... | |
| 1898 - 580 pages
...point of the earth's surface may be obtained from the Besselian elements which are given for every ten minutes of Greenwich mean time. Their geometric signification...follows: — Let us imagine a plane passing through the centre of the earth, perpendicular to the right line joining the centres of the sun and moon. This... | |
| 1900 - 662 pages
...point of the Earth's surface, may be obtained from the Besselian elements which are given for every ten minutes of Greenwich mean time. Their geometric signification...of the Moon's shadow, and the plane is called the fundamental plane or plane of xy. We take the intersection of this plane with that of the Earth's equator... | |
| United States Naval Observatory. Nautical Almanac Office - 1884 - 560 pages
...plane passing through the centre of the earth, perpe¿idicular to the right line joining the centres of the sun and moon. This latter line is the axis of the moon's shadow, and the plane is called the fundamental plane. We take the intersection of this plane with that of the earth's equator as the axis... | |
| United States Naval Observatory. Nautical Almanac Office - 1890 - 558 pages
...point of the earth's surface may be obtained from the Besselian elements which are given for every ten minutes of Greenwich mean time. Their geometric signification...follows: — Let us imagine a plane passing through the centre of the earth, perpendicular to the right line joining the centres of the sun and moon. This... | |
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