Astronomical Register: A Medium of Communication for Amateur Observers and All Others Interested in the Science of Astronomy, Volumes 15-16J. D. Potter., 1878 - Astronomy |
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... distance of the tabular place of Venus on the date of the late transit . It appeared that when Col. Tennant received the computations which the Astronomer- Royal has published , on comparing the Greenwich places with his own he found a ...
... distance of the tabular place of Venus on the date of the late transit . It appeared that when Col. Tennant received the computations which the Astronomer- Royal has published , on comparing the Greenwich places with his own he found a ...
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... of rings which diminish rapidly in intensity . If the intensity of any point of the image is represented by an ordinate , and the distance of the same point from the axis of the telescope by an 2 Meeting of the Royal Astronomical.
... of rings which diminish rapidly in intensity . If the intensity of any point of the image is represented by an ordinate , and the distance of the same point from the axis of the telescope by an 2 Meeting of the Royal Astronomical.
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... distance ; but as there is an inference which has been hardening into a con- viction that none of the skilled observers of 1874 , who observed the internal contact , saw what is called the black drop , it is desirable that it should be ...
... distance ; but as there is an inference which has been hardening into a con- viction that none of the skilled observers of 1874 , who observed the internal contact , saw what is called the black drop , it is desirable that it should be ...
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... distance between the calculated and observed place , and if this distance be projected on the normal drawn through the observed point and on the tangent at that point , and v and be the two projections , then Ax2 + 4y22 + 2 and the ...
... distance between the calculated and observed place , and if this distance be projected on the normal drawn through the observed point and on the tangent at that point , and v and be the two projections , then Ax2 + 4y22 + 2 and the ...
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... distance of Saturn , p . 360. By the way , we notice a misprint in the present edition , p . 279 , line 26 , where " intermediate " should of course be " indeterminate . " The value of the sun's parallax used in the calcu- lations in ...
... distance of Saturn , p . 360. By the way , we notice a misprint in the present edition , p . 279 , line 26 , where " intermediate " should of course be " indeterminate . " The value of the sun's parallax used in the calcu- lations in ...
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1st Oc 1st Sh 1st Tr 2nd Oc 2nd Sh 2nd Tr angle aperture appear Ascension Astronomer-Royal Astronomical Register atmosphere bright lines Bye-laws catalogue centre Christie clouds comet Conjunction of Moon corona corresponding Council crater dark diameter Dione disc distance double stars Dunkin eclipse Editor Encel equatorial error Greenwich heliometer Hyginus inches inner satellite instrument Jupiter Jupiter's Satellites light limb longitude Lord Lindsay lunar Mars Mean Noon measures meeting Mercury meteors miles Mimas minor planet moon's motion Neison object observations Occultation orbit paper parallax photographs planet position present prism Proctor Prof Professor proper motions Ranyard Reappearance of ditto remarks Rhea right ascension ring Royal Astronomical Society Royal Observatory Saturn Schröter seen Sidereal slit spectroscope specular reflection spot surface telescope Tethys theory Thur tion transit of Mercury transit of Venus Tues visible