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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... miles in depth . It cannot be assumed that the rim of the moon is something like five miles higher than the general surface of the moon . Father Perry One word as to what Mr. Ranyard has said . I think I could not have made myself ...
... miles in depth . It cannot be assumed that the rim of the moon is something like five miles higher than the general surface of the moon . Father Perry One word as to what Mr. Ranyard has said . I think I could not have made myself ...
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... miles below the height where the upper limb of the sun is brought into view by refraction we should have the density of the planet's atmosphere sufficient to bring the lower or more distant limb of the sun into view . As seen. 30 Meeting ...
... miles below the height where the upper limb of the sun is brought into view by refraction we should have the density of the planet's atmosphere sufficient to bring the lower or more distant limb of the sun into view . As seen. 30 Meeting ...
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... miles to a height of more than 200,000 miles in ten minutes , and in which Mr. Proctor has calculated that the ejectional velocity exceeded enormously - exceeded many times— the utterly inconceivable velocity of 255 miles per second ...
... miles to a height of more than 200,000 miles in ten minutes , and in which Mr. Proctor has calculated that the ejectional velocity exceeded enormously - exceeded many times— the utterly inconceivable velocity of 255 miles per second ...
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... miles per second , while direct observation of sun - spots would give 1.25 miles . He is inclined to think that this discordance indicates a physical fact , and that the solar chromosphere , or rather the reversing layer , really sweeps ...
... miles per second , while direct observation of sun - spots would give 1.25 miles . He is inclined to think that this discordance indicates a physical fact , and that the solar chromosphere , or rather the reversing layer , really sweeps ...
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... miles from Cape Frio . The sun had just set , and the star described a very small chord behind the moon's disc . Both observers saw the star within the moon's limb so long that they exchanged the telescope several times to " admire in ...
... miles from Cape Frio . The sun had just set , and the star described a very small chord behind the moon's disc . Both observers saw the star within the moon's limb so long that they exchanged the telescope several times to " admire 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