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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... correspond pretty well with the calculated diameters of the discs . But I do not think that by experiments we shall ever deduce the probable error of the actual observations of the transit , because what is seen in the actual transit is ...
... correspond pretty well with the calculated diameters of the discs . But I do not think that by experiments we shall ever deduce the probable error of the actual observations of the transit , because what is seen in the actual transit is ...
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... corresponds with the correction of the diameter found experi- mentally from occultations , and which has long been used at Greenwich . An attempt has recently been made in what I suppose I may now call our standard English book on the ...
... corresponds with the correction of the diameter found experi- mentally from occultations , and which has long been used at Greenwich . An attempt has recently been made in what I suppose I may now call our standard English book on the ...
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... correspond with the sausage - shaped area you spoke of last time ? Mr. Christie : I do not think that I used the term sausage- shaped area . The oblong patch is the one which corresponds to it . As the planet becomes more gibbous , then ...
... correspond with the sausage - shaped area you spoke of last time ? Mr. Christie : I do not think that I used the term sausage- shaped area . The oblong patch is the one which corresponds to it . As the planet becomes more gibbous , then ...
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... corresponding vi , and vii . in the original , and the view of Saturn by Dawes , xxi . , with xii . in the original , the superior delicacy of which is obvious . It seems difficult to prevent engravings of this sort being often too ...
... corresponding vi , and vii . in the original , and the view of Saturn by Dawes , xxi . , with xii . in the original , the superior delicacy of which is obvious . It seems difficult to prevent engravings of this sort being often too ...
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... corresponds with the position of this radiant point , then rising in the east ; and a bolide seen in France on November 5th , disappearing with a flash brighter than moonlight near a Ursa Majoris , which left a long luminous line on its ...
... corresponds with the position of this radiant point , then rising in the east ; and a bolide seen in France on November 5th , disappearing with a flash brighter than moonlight near a Ursa Majoris , which left a long luminous line on its ...
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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