Passage shows the hour, minute and tenth of that passage of the planet over the meridian of Greenwich which occurs next after the noon of the date. The right ascension and declination of a planet are required whenever it is observed for time, latitude... The American Ephemeris and Nautical Almanac - Page 560by United States Naval Observatory. Nautical Almanac Office - 1906Full view - About this book
 | United States. Congress. House - 1885 - 558 pages
...meridian passage are given for the moment of Greenwich mean noon. The с lumn Meridian Passage gives the hour, minute and tenth of that passage of the...and declination of a planet are required whenever it has been observed for time, latitude or azimuth. The mode of reduc:ng them to any instant of Greenwich... | |
 | 1895 - 578 pages
...meridian passage are given for the moment of Greenwich mean noon. The column Meridian Passage gives the hour, minute and tenth of that passage of the...and declination of a planet are required whenever it has been observed for time, latitude or azimuth. The mode of reducing them to any instant of Greenwich... | |
 | 1898 - 580 pages
...meridian passage are given for the moment of Greenwich mean noon. The column Meridian Passage gives the hour, minute and tenth of that passage of the...and declination of a planet are required whenever it has been observed for time, latitude or azimuth. The mode of reducing them to any instant of Greenwich... | |
 | 1900 - 662 pages
...result is the same as by the previous method. Pages 218 — 249 contain the geocentric ephemerides of the seven major planets. The places given are apparent...time is the same as that given for the Sun on pages 554 — 555. The local mean time of meridian passage of any planet, at any place, can be found by dividing... | |
 | 1907 - 294 pages
...proportion: As 24h (or 360°) is to the longitude, so is the daily difference to the reduction required. The right ascension and declination of a planet are...whenever it is observed for time, latitude, or azimuth. Positions of Fixed Stars. — Pages 248-250 contain the Mean Places, with their Annual Variations,... | |
 | United States Naval Observatory. Nautical Almanac Office - 1915 - 798 pages
...Transit Meridian of Greenwich. All the data, except the last named, are given for Greenwich mean noon. The right ascension and declination of a planet are...instants of Greenwich mean time is the same as that already given for the Sun. The local mean time of meridian transit of any planet at any place can be... | |
 | John Huntington Crane Coffin - 1919 - 280 pages
...horizontal parallax of the planets are given at the foot of the pages for the first day of each month. The right ascension and declination of a planet are...whenever it is observed for time, latitude, or azimuth. 125. Stars. — The right ascension, and decimation, in a list of apparent places of 55 stars, are... | |
 | 1912 - 554 pages
...sidereal time being the right ascension of the star. The right ascension and declination of a star are required whenever it is observed for time, latitude, or azimuth. The mean places are sufficiently accurate for most observations at sea; but for more exact purposes the... | |
 | United States Naval Observatory. Nautical Almanac Office - 1884 - 558 pages
...meridian passage are given for the moment of Greenwich mean noon. The column Meridian Passage gives the hour, minute and tenth of that passage of the...and declination of a planet are required whenever it has been observed for time, latitude or azimuth. The mode of reducing them to any instant of Greenwich... | |
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