Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical SocietyPriestly and Weale, 1861 |
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Page 58
... containing sheets 26 , 27 , 32 , 33 , will amount to half the next Zone , 40 ° to 60 ° N. The observations by zones of 2 and 3 degrees broad with the 34 - lines telescope were brought to a close at 81 ° N. on March 27 , 1859 , and ...
... containing sheets 26 , 27 , 32 , 33 , will amount to half the next Zone , 40 ° to 60 ° N. The observations by zones of 2 and 3 degrees broad with the 34 - lines telescope were brought to a close at 81 ° N. on March 27 , 1859 , and ...
Page 61
... contains a catalogue of all the errors detected at Bonn in the zones of Bessel , from -2 ° to + 45 ° decl . , and states that the result of the revision appears to be , that , excepting two cases of observations of planets , the whole ...
... contains a catalogue of all the errors detected at Bonn in the zones of Bessel , from -2 ° to + 45 ° decl . , and states that the result of the revision appears to be , that , excepting two cases of observations of planets , the whole ...
Page 64
... contains the observed values of r increased in this ratio . The fourth column contains the corrections required to reduce the values in the third to a vacuum . The correction is taken from a scale that was constructed by means of an ...
... contains the observed values of r increased in this ratio . The fourth column contains the corrections required to reduce the values in the third to a vacuum . The correction is taken from a scale that was constructed by means of an ...
Page 79
... contain a statement of the assumed diameter which has actu- ally been used in the calculations of that volume . Thus the assumed value of Sun's diameter , as seen at Earth's mean dis- tance , in the Nautical Almanacs from 1836 to 1852 ...
... contain a statement of the assumed diameter which has actu- ally been used in the calculations of that volume . Thus the assumed value of Sun's diameter , as seen at Earth's mean dis- tance , in the Nautical Almanacs from 1836 to 1852 ...
Page 103
... contains two papers only , these are , first , a Memoir On the Lunar Theory , by Sir J. W. Lubbock , Bart . , of which an abstract was published in the Monthly Notices , January 1861. The memoir relates chiefly to the comparison and ...
... contains two papers only , these are , first , a Memoir On the Lunar Theory , by Sir J. W. Lubbock , Bart . , of which an abstract was published in the Monthly Notices , January 1861. The memoir relates chiefly to the comparison and ...
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2r+g Airy Alhazen Annex appears April Astronomer Royal bright Calculation CAYLEY clock Comet computed corrected crater Decl declination diameter difference distance Ditto ditto edge Ephemeris equations Equatoreal error excentricity eye-piece Greenwich inches aperture instrument July June Jupiter Jupiter's Satellites latitude light limb longitude Lunar m² e m² n² Mars Mean Solar measures Memoir meridian Minor Planets Monthly Notices Moon Moon's Mean Motion N.P.D. from Observation Nautical Almanac nearly Nebula nucleus Number of Observations obtained Occultation orbit parallax perihelion photographs Prof R.A. from Observation Radcliffe Catalogue radiation Right Ascension ring Royal Observatory Saturn Secular Acceleration shadow Sirius Small Planets Society Solar Eclipse soleil stars Struve Sun's disk surface T. W. Webb taches telescope term thermometer tion Transit of Mercury Ursa Variable Variable Stars W. R. Dawes Weisse