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" 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 715
by United States Naval Observatory. Nautical Almanac Office - 1911
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Miscellaneous Documents: 30th Congress, 1st Session - 49th ..., Volume 9

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...
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Congressional Serial Set

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...
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Congressional Serial Set

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...
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Congressional Serial Set

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...
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Aeronautical Dictionary

United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Frank Davis Adams - 1959 - 216 pages
...celestial horizon. The great circle on the celestial sphere formed by the intersection of the sphere with a plane passing through the center of the earth perpendicular to the zenith-nadir axis of an observer; also, the plane that establishes this horizon. The celestial horizon...
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The American Ephemeris and Nautical Almanac

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...
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The American Ephemeris and Nautical Almanac

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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