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... Heliometer in 1862 The Transit Instrument The Meridian Circle . • • Other Instruments belonging to the Observatory The Clocks and Chronometer • The Barometers · · Description , Adjustments , and Mode of Use of the Transit Circle ...
... Heliometer in 1862 The Transit Instrument The Meridian Circle . • • Other Instruments belonging to the Observatory The Clocks and Chronometer • The Barometers · · Description , Adjustments , and Mode of Use of the Transit Circle ...
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... Heliometer , where found . xliv Diameter and Focal Length of its Object - Glass xliv Means provided for giving motion to the segments of the Object - Glass Illumination of its Scale xliv xliv The Telescope - Tube , when dismounted and ...
... Heliometer , where found . xliv Diameter and Focal Length of its Object - Glass xliv Means provided for giving motion to the segments of the Object - Glass Illumination of its Scale xliv xliv The Telescope - Tube , when dismounted and ...
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... Heliometer Assumed Mean Places of the Comparison - Stars observed with the Great Comet of 1862 . . 94 107 116 Measures of Distance and Angle of Position of the Components of Double Stars , and of Planets , made with the Heliometer 117 ...
... Heliometer Assumed Mean Places of the Comparison - Stars observed with the Great Comet of 1862 . . 94 107 116 Measures of Distance and Angle of Position of the Components of Double Stars , and of Planets , made with the Heliometer 117 ...
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... Heliometer was , as before , used by myself for observations of double stars and the diameters of large planets , great attention being paid in particular to the planet Mars . The double stars observed in this and the preceding year ...
... Heliometer was , as before , used by myself for observations of double stars and the diameters of large planets , great attention being paid in particular to the planet Mars . The double stars observed in this and the preceding year ...
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... Heliometer is by Jones , and has a bag and float for the adjustment of the level of the cistern . The latter was , in the year 1862 , placed in the Transit Circle Room , near that by Newman in actual use . Description , Adjustments ...
... Heliometer is by Jones , and has a bag and float for the adjustment of the level of the cistern . The latter was , in the year 1862 , placed in the Transit Circle Room , near that by Newman in actual use . Description , Adjustments ...
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Angles of Position Apparent Error Aquarii Aquilæ Arietis Assumed value Assumed zero Barograph Barom bluish Boötis Cancri Capricorni Cephei 51 Hev cession in N.P.D. Ceti Circle Cloudy Comet Concluded Scale Readings depends on Lacaille determining stars Distances from Zero Eridani Error of Tabular Geminorum Greenwich Mean Groomb Groombridge h. m. div Heliometer Herculis Hydræ Inches July 10 Q July 14 July 28 June 11 June 23 June 9 Leonis Libræ Mags Mean Monthly Mean N.P.D. Mean R.A. Mean Readings Measures in Arc Name of Star Nautical Almanac Number of Obs Observatory Obsr Ophiuchi Orionis Overcast Pegasi Perigee Piscium Polar Diameter Polaris S.P. RADCLIFFE OBSERVATIONS RADCLIFFE OBSERVATORY Readings of Measures Reflexion Right Ascensions Sagittarii Scale Divisions Sept Serpentis Showers Sidereal Tauri unsteady Ursa Minoris Ursa Minoris S.P. Virginis wires yellow Zero in Scale zero of position-circle
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Page 2 - Sin a in the direction of the Meridian and at right angles to it, being considered positive towards the North and East.
Page iv - 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...
Page 1 - Equation for expressing in the usual periodic formulas the reading at any hour of the day reckoned from noon, in terms of the mean value and the hour of the day. The principal maximum values, both positive and negative, for each month as derived from the forementioned equation are as follows : — Month.
Page xli - A weighted arithmetic mean is obtained by multiplying each value by some non-negative weight before summation and then dividing the sum of the products by the sum of the weights.
Page xxvii - HUBBAKD has given a very simple table by which the values of log A, log B, log C, and log D as given in the Tab.
Page 95 - Right Ascensions and North Polar Distances of the Centre of the Sun. Oxford Mean Solar Time of Transit of Centre. RA Seconds of Tabular RA Apparent Error of Tabular RA N-.FD Seconds of Tabular NF D. Apparent Error of Tabular NI