Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volumes 9-12Priestley and Weale, 1849 - Astronomy Includes lists of additions to the Society's library, usually separately paged. |
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Altona angle aperture appeared April Assumed Mean Places Astronomer Royal axis azimuth Berlin bright Cambridge catalogue centre chronometers circle clock collimation comet computed corrected for refraction Dawes deduced determined diameter double stars eclipse edge elements ephemeris epoch equations Equatoreal error eye-piece faint Greenwich Mean Hamburg M.T. Hartnup heliometer Herschel Hind inches instrument June Lalande Lassell latitude Lieut light limb LIVERPOOL London longitude M. C. Rümker Maclear magnitude measures Memoirs meridian Meridian Circle micrometer Monthly Notices moon moon's Nautical Almanac nearly object-glass observations orbit parallax perihelion planet position probable Professor Schumacher proper motion R.A. h m remarkable right ascension ring ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY Royal Observatory satellite Saturn seen Sept solar spot Stars of Comparison Struve sun's telescope tion transit tube visible W. R. Dawes Weisse wire Yvon Villarceau
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Page 102 - Whose lonely columns stand sublime, Flinging their shadows from on high, Like dials, which the wizard, Time, Had raised to count his ages by...
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Page 88 - ... made of unlimited strength, may be employed to destroy the distorting force of gravity on every other part.* The success of this experiment was such, and the instrument was found to work so well, that Mr. Lassell conceived the bold idea of constructing a reflector of 2 feet in aperture and 20 feet in focal length, and mounting it upon the same principle.
Page 84 - February, 1704, and educated at St John's College, Cambridge, where he took the degree of Bachelor of Arts.
Page 60 - The scene around us, shown in all its dangers by the bright moonlight, was indeed very awful. On the second shock, rocks were hurled in every direction from the peaks around to the bed of the river, with a hideous noise not to be described, and never to be forgotten. After the crash caused by the falls near us had ceased, we could still hear the terrible sounds of heavy falls in the more distant recesses of the mountains.
Page 60 - ... of the river, with a hideous noise not to be described, and never to be forgotten. After the crash caused by the falls near us had ceased, we could still hear the terrible sounds of heavy falls in the more distant recesses of the mountains. We looked up with dismay at the cliffs over head, expecting that the next shock would detach some ruins from them.
Page 126 - ... miles. The performance of this long line was better than that of any of the shorter lines has hitherto been. Not more than two or three good astronomical nights, at Cincinnati and Philadelphia, were lost by failure of any part of the line, in the periods of nearly two months of our stay at Cincinnati.
Page 80 - For these he received the gold and silver war medals with three clasps. He attained the rank of lieutenant-general in 1846, and in the same year was appointed colonel commandant of the Royal Artillery. He was aide-de-camp for that force to King George IV., and afterwards to King William IV. He was nominated a Companion of the Bath in 1815, and a Knight Companion of the Hanoverian Guelphic Order in 1831. He was dubbed a Knight Bachelor on the 13th of September in the latter year. 12. At Fosbury House,...
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