 | United States Naval Observatory. Nautical Almanac Office - 1892 - 578 pages
...effects of refraction and parallax, finds the true or geocentric distance, that is, the distance as it would have appeared from the centre of the earth...lessen the labor of computation, there is given in the Ephetneris, between every two successive distances, the logarithm of the seconds of time in which the... | |
 | 1869 - 596 pages
...refraetion and parallax, finds the trae, or geoeentrie, distanee. With this distanee and the distanees in the Ephemeris of the same bodies on the same day, the Greenwieh »nean time of the observation ean be fonnd. To lessen the labor of eompatation, there is... | |
 | United States Naval Observatory. Nautical Almanac Office - 1870 - 566 pages
...and cleared it from the effects of refraction and parallax, finds the true, or geocentric, distance. With this distance and the distances in the Ephemeris of the same bodies on the same day, the G-reenwicJt mean time of the observation can be found. To lessen the labor of computation, there is... | |
 | United States Naval Observatory. Nautical Almanac Office - 1872 - 548 pages
...distance. With this distance and the distances in tho Epheineris of the same bodies on the same day, tho Greenwich mean time of the observation can be found....lessen the labor of computation, there is given in the Epheineris between every two successive distances the logarithm of ike seconds of time in which the... | |
 | United States Naval Observatory. Nautical Almanac Office - 1882 - 550 pages
...centre of the earth at the moment of observation. With this distance and the distances in the Epherneris of the same bodies on the same day, the Greenwich...lessen the labor of computation, there is given in the Ephcmeris, between every two successive distances, the logarithm of the seconds of time in which the... | |
 | 1883 - 558 pages
...nl'i:n-rinn in<l parallax. finds tin- true. <>r ireocenti ic. di.-iancc ; that is, the distance ян it would have appeared from the centre of the earth...the moment of observation. With this distance and tin- distances 11 ih<- Kphemeris of tin- same Imdies on the наше dav. tin- (irccnuich mean time... | |
 | United States Naval Observatory. Nautical Almanac Office - 1886 - 560 pages
...effects of refraction and parallax, finds the true or geocentric distance, that is, the distance as it would have appeared from the centre of the earth...same day, the Greenwich mean time of the observation «an be found. To lessen the labor of computation, there is given in the Ephemeris, between every two... | |
 | 1886 - 552 pages
...effects of refraction and parallax, finds the true or geocentric distance, thut is, the distance as it would have appeared from the centre of the earth at the moment of observation. With this distance aud the distance* in the Ephemeris of the same bodies on the same day, the Greenwich mean time of the... | |
 | United States Naval Observatory. Nautical Almanac Office - 1887 - 556 pages
...effects of refraction and parallax, finds the true or geocentric distance, that is, the distance as it would have appeared from the centre of the earth...observation. With this distance and the distances in the Epheraeris of the same bodies on the same day, the Greenwich mean time of the observation can be found.... | |
 | Nathaniel Bowditch - 1888 - 704 pages
...finds the true or gtvrtntrif distance. With this distance and the distances in the Nautical Almanac of the same bodies on the same day, the Greenwich mean time of the observation can be found, as will be hereafter described. Art. 3O3. Could the chronometer be relied upon implicitly as a perfect... | |
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... it would have appeared from the centre of the earth at the moment of observation. With this distance and the distances in the Ephemeris of the same bodies on the same day, the Greenwich mean time of the observation can be found. To lessen the labor... 
