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Page 136
... but he can generally do so , and more correctly , at night * , by the meridian altitude of one or more of the stars of the first or second magnitude , whose right ascension and declination are given in the Nautical Almanac .
... but he can generally do so , and more correctly , at night * , by the meridian altitude of one or more of the stars of the first or second magnitude , whose right ascension and declination are given in the Nautical Almanac .
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The terms answering to terrestrial longitude and latitude , when referred to the celestial sphere , are right ascension and declination ; being affected by the movement of those about it , to ensure which , a sort of detached plat- form ...
The terms answering to terrestrial longitude and latitude , when referred to the celestial sphere , are right ascension and declination ; being affected by the movement of those about it , to ensure which , a sort of detached plat- form ...
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The right ascension and declination of any celestial object can evidently be determined from its latitude and longitude , and vice versā ; the obliquity of the ecliptic , or the angle it forms with the equinoctial , being known .
The right ascension and declination of any celestial object can evidently be determined from its latitude and longitude , and vice versā ; the obliquity of the ecliptic , or the angle it forms with the equinoctial , being known .
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... be the right ascension , TS the declination , and PS the polar distance of any star or object S , referred to the equinoctial by the hour circle PSTp ; and BSD will be the diurnal circle it will appear to describe about the pole .
... be the right ascension , TS the declination , and PS the polar distance of any star or object S , referred to the equinoctial by the hour circle PSTp ; and BSD will be the diurnal circle it will appear to describe about the pole .
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... hence the apparent solar time added to the sun's right ascension is the sidereal time , and when any object is on the meridian , the sidereal time , and the apparent right ascension of that object , are the same .
... hence the apparent solar time added to the sun's right ascension is the sidereal time , and when any object is on the meridian , the sidereal time , and the apparent right ascension of that object , are the same .
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Page 169 - A Solar Day is the interval of time between two successive transits of the sun over the same meridian; and the hour-angle of the sun is called Solar Time.
Page 138 - Ocean, the first thing which strikes us is, that, the north-east and south-east monsoons, which are found the one on the north and the other on the south side of the...
Page 140 - An Account of the Measurement of an Arc of the Meridian, extending from Dunnose, in the Isle of Wight, Latitude 50° 37
Page 114 - When the boiling point at the upper station alone is observed, and for the lower the level of the sea, or the register of a distinct barometer is taken, then the barometric reading had better be converted into feet, by the usual method of subtracting its logarithm from 1-47712 (log. of 30 inches) and multiplying by '0006, as the differences in the column of " barometer " vary more rapidly than those in the ''''feet
Page 73 - BA, the sum of the two refractions ; hence, supposing half that sum to be the true refraction, we have the following rule when the objects are reciprocally depressed. Subtract the sum of the two depressions from the contained arc, and half the remainder is the mean refraction : — If one of the points B, instead of being depressed be elevated, suppose to the point g, the angle of elevation being gA.D, then * " Trigonometrical Survey,
Page 74 - BA, the sum of the two refractions ; the rule for the mean refraction then in this case is, subtract the depression from the sum of the contained arc and the elevation, and half the remainder is the mean refraction -. The...
Page 81 - ... indigo), till it nearly reaches to the necks of the bottles, which are then corked for the convenience of carriage. On setting the stand tolerably level by the eye, these corks are both withdrawn, which must be done carefully, and when the tube is nearly level, or the water will be ejected with violence ; and the surface of the water in the bottles, being necessarily on the same level, gives a horizontal line in whatever direction the tube is turned, by which the vane of a levelling staff is...
Page 181 - Call the zenith distance north or south, according as the zenith is north or south of the object.
Page 114 - Assuming 30'00 inches as the average height of the barometer at the level of the sea (which is however too much), the altitude of the upper station is at once obtained by inspection of Table I, correcting for temperature of the stratum of air traversed by table II.
Page 158 - In the orthographic projection, every point of the hemisphere is referred to its diametral plane or base, by a perpendicular let fall on it, so that the representation of the hemisphere thus mapped on its base, is such as it would actually appear to an eye placed at an infinite distance from it. It is obvious, from the annexed figure, that in this projection only the central portions are represented of their true forms, while all the exterior is more and more distorted and crowded together as we...
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| Title | Outline of the Method of Conducting a Trigonometrical Survey, for the Formation of Geographical and Topographical Maps and Plans: Military Reconnaissance, Levelling, Etc |
| Author | Edward Charles Frome |
| Edition | 2 |
| Publisher | Weale, 1850 |
| Original from | the University of Wisconsin - Madison |
| Digitized | 20 Jul 2007 |
| Length | 253 pages |
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