Results of Meteorological Observations Made ..., Band 35

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Seite 269 - TE Espin. Observations of occultations of stars by the Moon, and of phenomena of Jupiter's satellites, made at the Radcliffe Observatory, Oxford, 1877-78, and 1882-83.
Seite 162 - HORIZONTAL AND VERTICAL DIAMETERS; AND RIGHT ASCENSIONS AND NORTH POLAR DISTANCES OF THE SUN, MOON, AND PLANETS...
Seite xl - Contains the ephemeris of Universal and Sidereal Times, the ephemerides of the Sun, Moon, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune, the geocentric ephemerides of Ceres, Pallas, Juno, Vesta and Pluto, the nutation in longitude and obliquity, the Day Numbers, and the Phenomena. This volume also contains data on mean places of stars; eclipses of the Sun and Moon; ephemerides for physical observations of the Sun, Moon, and planets; ephemerides...
Seite xvi - ... has been used for all stars contained in that work, by comparison of the Mean and Apparent Right Ascensions for each day required. For stars used for determining clock-error, not contained in the Nautical Almanac, the constants log a, log b, log c, and log d, have been computed for the epoch...
Seite xxvii - The constants for unknown stars observed in the year 1868, which follow the Separate Results for Mean NPD, are printed because they may be found useful to persons who may have occasion to employ the places of these stars. The notes which follow are necessary for enabling a judgment to be formed of the effect which atmospheric and accidental circumstances may have had on the quality of the observations. A note is also given for every case wherein a star has been observed over a smaller number of wires...
Seite xvii - In the cases of the- sun, moon, and the planet Mercury, when only one limb has been observed, a correction for the duration of transit of the semidiameter is needed; and the numbers are taken without alteration from the Nautical Almanac. For the planet Mars when both limbs have been observed, the defective limb is corrected for phase.
Seite 1 - ... very carefully the times when conspicuous changes have occurred from direct to retrograde, or the contrary, and then finding what have been the whole changes during those intervals of time in which the wind has been turning on the whole in one direction, retrograde or direct. The numbers...

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