 | 1824 - 514 páginas
...the same time in any parallel of declination. The newly proposed method consists in merely observing with a transit instrument, the differences of right ascension between the border of the moon, and certain fixed stars previously agreed upon, restricting the observations to such stars... | |
 | 1824 - 512 páginas
...the same time in any parallel of declination. The newly proposed method consists in merely observing with a transit instrument, the differences of right ascension between the border of the moon, and certain fixed stars previously agreed upon, restricting the observations to such stars... | |
 | William Galbraith - 1834 - 454 páginas
...more to be relied on than by any of the preceding methods. This method consists in merely observing, with a transit instrument, the differences of right ascension between the border of the moon, and certain fixed stars previously agreed on;* which stars are so selected that they shall... | |
 | William Newton, Charles Frederick Partington - 1863 - 382 páginas
...any fixed stars passing the meridian, about the same time, without regard to their declination, and thus a great number of errors and anomalies have been...this mode of observation, and reduces them to one general form, and concludes by stating, that this method will save, much time and trouble, while it... | |
 | Francis Baily - 1827 - 340 páginas
...more to be relied on than by any of the preceding methods. This method consists in merely observing, with a transit instrument, the differences of right ascension between the border of the moon, and certain fixed stars previously agreed on* ; which stars are so selected that they... | |
 | 1824 - 504 páginas
...the same time in any parallel of declination. The newly proposed method consists in merely observing with a transit instrument, the differences of right ascension between the border of the moon, and certain fixed stars previously agreed upon, restricting the observations to such stars... | |
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... led to some awkward anomalies, on account of its having been customary to take the moon's centre reduced to the meridian, and to compare it with the apparent places of stars passing the meridian about the same time in any parallel of declination.... 