Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Bind 4–6;Bind 1836–1845Priestley and Weale, 1839 |
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61 Cygni Aldebaran altitude appearance Aquarii Astronomer Royal Baily Bessel calculation Cambridge Cape Capricorni Captain Castle Street catalogue chronometers circle comet communications were read comparison computed constellations correction Council declination deduced determined distance ditto double stars Edinburgh elements Ephemeris equations equatoreal error experiments Fixed Stars Francis Baily G. B. Airy Greenwich Greenwich Mean Halley's Comet inches instrument labour Lacaille latitude Leicester Square length Leonis Letter Lieut limb London longitude lunar Maclear magnitude March mean measure medal Memoirs meridian method micrometer Monthly Notices Moon moon's Moyes and Barclay nucleus object obtained Occultations orbit Orionis paper parallax pendulum Perihelion perturbations Piscium planet position present Procyon Professor Henderson proper motion refraction remarkable Rigel right ascension ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY Royal Observatory seen shew sidereal Sir John Herschel Sirius Solar Eclipse sun's tables tail Tauri telescope tion transit Virginis visible zenith
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