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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... interest in M. André's investigations . His experiments as to the amount of irradiation with various apertures and degrees of illumination are of great importance . Measures of the irradiation in the case of the sun and moon and of the ...
... interest in M. André's investigations . His experiments as to the amount of irradiation with various apertures and degrees of illumination are of great importance . Measures of the irradiation in the case of the sun and moon and of the ...
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... interest . He says that the correction of the moon's diameter to be deduced from theory corresponds with the correction of the diameter found experi- mentally from occultations , and which has long been used at Greenwich . An attempt ...
... interest . He says that the correction of the moon's diameter to be deduced from theory corresponds with the correction of the diameter found experi- mentally from occultations , and which has long been used at Greenwich . An attempt ...
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... interest the Fellows of the Society to see an enlarged copy of a photograph of the spectrum of Vega which I have taken . The original spectrum is about half an inch in length , and so well defined that it can be examined and measured ...
... interest the Fellows of the Society to see an enlarged copy of a photograph of the spectrum of Vega which I have taken . The original spectrum is about half an inch in length , and so well defined that it can be examined and measured ...
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... interest to know the distribution of the " Novae , " and also of the brighter Vari- ables in reference to the Milky Way . The following list gives the galactic longitudes and latitudes of the " Novae , " and of all or nearly all those ...
... interest to know the distribution of the " Novae , " and also of the brighter Vari- ables in reference to the Milky Way . The following list gives the galactic longitudes and latitudes of the " Novae , " and of all or nearly all those ...
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... interest in astronomy before existing on the part of many , and of their instrumentality in creating such an interest for the first time . Let us just observe , in passing , that as a sound and altogether trustworthy popular work on ...
... interest in astronomy before existing on the part of many , and of their instrumentality in creating such an interest for the first time . Let us just observe , in passing , that as a sound and altogether trustworthy popular work on ...
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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