Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 18Priestley and Weale, 1858 - Astronomy Includes lists of additions to the Society's library, usually separately paged. |
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angle aperture Apparent N.P.D. h m Apparent R.A. Apparent Apparent R.A. h m appeared April Astronomer Royal Baily's Baily's beads bright calculated Capt Carrington Catalogue centre clock clouds colour Comet computed correction Council cusps dark Decl difference of N.P.D. disk distance double stars Edinburgh elements ephemeris equation equatoreal error exhibited favourable greatest obscuration Greenwich Hansen inches instruments June Jupiter latitude light longitude lunar mean anomaly Mean Solar measured meridian micrometer Monthly Notices moon moon's limb motion Nautical Almanac Norman Pogson object-glass observations obtained Occultation paper pendulum planet position Prof Professor R.A. Apparent N.P.D. radius refraction remarks right ascension ring Royal Astronomical Society Royal Observatory satellite Saturn seen Solar Eclipse spots stars sun's surface tables telescope tion transit Virginis visible W. R. Dawes wires ΙΟ
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