... together under that date; and the columns are read from left to right, across both pages of the same opening. The letter W. or E. is affixed to the name of the sun, planet or star, to indicate that it is on the west, or east side of the moon. Congressional Serial Set - Page 4911895Full view - About this book
| United States Naval Observatory. Nautical Almanac Office - 1892 - 578 pages
...пяте of the sun, planet or star, to indicate that it is on the west, or east side of the moon. 501 An observer on the earth's surface having measured...corrected it for errors of his instrument and for the eemidiameter of the objects, and cleared it from the effects of refraction and parallax, finds the... | |
| United States Naval Observatory. Nautical Almanac Office - 1868 - 562 pages
...the name of the sun, planet, or star, to indicate that it is on the west, or east, side of the moon. An observer on the earth's surface having measured a Lunar Distance, corrected it for «того of his instrument and for the semidiameter of the objects, and cleared it from the effects... | |
| United States Naval Observatory. Nautical Almanac Office - 1872 - 548 pages
...name of the sun, planet, or star, to indicate» that it is on the west, or east, side of the moon. An observer on the earth's surface having measured...corrected it for errors of his instrument and for tho semidiameter of the objects, and cleared it from the effects of refraction and parallax, finds... | |
| United States Naval Observatory. Nautical Almanac Office - 1872 - 558 pages
...planet, or star, to indicate that it is on time west, or east, side of time moon. An observer on time earth's surface having measured a Lunar Distance, corrected it for errors of his instrument and for time semidiameter of the objects, and cleared it from the effectsof refm'action and parallax, fiimds... | |
| United States Naval Observatory. Nautical Almanac Office - 1876 - 552 pages
...the name of the sun, planet, or star, to indicate that it is on the west, or east, side of the moon. An observer on the earth's surface having measured...the semidiameter of the objects, and cleared it from t bo effects of refraction and parallax, finds the true, or geocentric, distance. With this distance... | |
| United States Naval Observatory. Nautical Almanac Office - 1879 - 568 pages
...planet or star, to indicate that it is on the west, or east, side of the moon. EPH 82 — 31 — 12 Au observer on the earth's surface having measured a lunar distance, corrected it lor errors of his instrument and for the semidiameter of the objects, and cleared it from the effects... | |
| United States. Congress. House - 1885 - 558 pages
...the name of the sun, planet or star, to indicate that it is on the west, or east side of the moon. An observer on the earth's surface having measured...true or geocentric distance, that is, the distance us it would have appeared from the centre of the earth at the moment of observation. With this distance... | |
| 1886 - 552 pages
...having measured a lunar distance, corrected it for errors of liis instrument and for the eemidiameter of the objects, and cleared it from the effects of...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.... | |
| United States Naval Observatory. Nautical Almanac Office - 1887 - 556 pages
...the name of the sun, planet or star, to indicate that it is on the west, or east side of the moon. An observer on the earth's surface having measured a lunar distance, corrected it for errors of Ins instrument and for the semidiameter of the objects, and cleared it from the effects of refraction... | |
| United States Naval Observatory. Nautical Almanac Office - 1889 - 558 pages
...the semidiaiuetcr of llic objects, and cleared it from the effects of refraction and parallax, tinds the true or geocentric distance, that is, the distance...centre of the earth at the moment of observation. With ihis distance and the distances in the Ephenieris of the sume bodies on the same day, the Greenwich... | |
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