An Elementary Treatise on Plane & Spherical Trigonometry: With Their Applications to Navigation, Surveying, Heights, and Distances, and Spherical Astronomy, and Particularly Adapted to Explaining the Construction of Bowditch's Navigator, and the Nautical Almanac |
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Page 213
... at the distance from P , PMPM will appear to describe the circumference MH MH . It will rise in the east at H and set at H ' , if the distance PM Sideral time . from the pole is greater than the $ 22 . ] 213 DIURNAL MOTION .
... at the distance from P , PMPM will appear to describe the circumference MH MH . It will rise in the east at H and set at H ' , if the distance PM Sideral time . from the pole is greater than the $ 22 . ] 213 DIURNAL MOTION .
Page 214
... sideral day , that is , literally , a star - day . This day is divided into 24 hours , and clocks regulated to this time are said to denote sideral time . [ B. p . 147. ] 24. Each point of the celestial equator passes the meridian once ...
... sideral day , that is , literally , a star - day . This day is divided into 24 hours , and clocks regulated to this time are said to denote sideral time . [ B. p . 147. ] 24. Each point of the celestial equator passes the meridian once ...
Page 215
... sideral time since the passage of the star over the meridian . 26. Corollary . The difference of the right ascensions of the star and of the meridian is the hour angle of the star . 27. The distance of a star from the east or west ...
... sideral time since the passage of the star over the meridian . 26. Corollary . The difference of the right ascensions of the star and of the meridian is the hour angle of the star . 27. The distance of a star from the east or west ...
Page 226
... superior and inferior passage of a star over the meridian is just half of a sideral day . If , then , a telescope Meridian determined by circumpolar stars . were placed so as 226 [ CH . III . SPHERICAL ASTRONOMY . The Meridian.
... superior and inferior passage of a star over the meridian is just half of a sideral day . If , then , a telescope Meridian determined by circumpolar stars . were placed so as 226 [ CH . III . SPHERICAL ASTRONOMY . The Meridian.
Page 227
... sideral time of its description . Let then T the sideral time of describing the arc S M , = t = the sideral time of describing the arc s m , I interval from the observation at S to that at s , i = interval from the observation at s to ...
... sideral time of its description . Let then T the sideral time of describing the arc S M , = t = the sideral time of describing the arc s m , I interval from the observation at S to that at s , i = interval from the observation at s to ...
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Page 172 - A cos 6 = cos a cos c + sin a sin c cos B cos c = cos a cos 6 + sin a sin 6 cos C Law of Cosines for Angles cos A = — cos B...
Page 135 - A spherical triangle is a portion of the surface of a sphere, bounded by three arcs of great circles.
Page 39 - ... the following proportion : — as the sine of the angle opposite the given side is to the sine of the angle opposite the required side, so is the given side to the required side.
Page 43 - The sum of any two sides of a triangle is to their difference, as the tangent of half the sum of the angles opposite to those sides, to the tangent of half their difference.
Page 193 - The cosine of half the sum of two sides of a spherical triangle is to the cosine of half their difference as the cotangent of half the included angle is to the tangent of half the sum of the other two angles. The sine of half the sum of two sides of a spherical...
Page 40 - O will be equal to sixty degrees. Hence, if any two angles of a triangle be known, the third may be found by subtracting the sum of the two known angles from 180 degrees, the remainder will be the number of degrees in the third angle.
Page 145 - ... theorems, called, from their celebrated inventor, Napier's Rules. In these rules, the complements of the hypothenuse and the angles are used instead of the hypothenuse and the angles themselves, and the right angle is neglected. Of the five parts, then, the legs, the complement of the hypothennse, and the complements of the angles ; either part may be called the middle part.
Page 220 - ... any deviation in the plane of the instrument from the meridian, will evidently produce contrary effects upon the observed times of transit, exactly as in the upper and lower transits of the same star. The time, which elapses between the two observations, will differ from the time which should elapse by the sum of the effects of the deviation upon the two stars. In the use of this method, therefore, the time of the clock must be known, so that it can readily be reduced to sideral time. The deviations...
Page 297 - Solar Day is the interval of time between two successive transits of the sun over the same meridian ; and the hour angle of the sun is called Solar Time. This is the most natural and direct measure of time. But the intervals between the successive returns of the sun to the meridian are not exactly equal, but depend upon the variable> motion of the sun in right ascension. - The want of uniformity in the sun's motion in right ascension arises from two different causes ; one, that the sun does not move...
Page 199 - ... equator and the ecliptic, and hence, also, the position of the equinoxes. In expressing the positions of stars, referred to the vernal equinox, at any given instant, the actual position of the equinox at the instant is understood, unless otherwise stated. The right ascension of a point of the sphere is the arc of the equator intercepted between its circle of declination and the vernal equinox, and is reckoned from the vernal equinox eastward from 0° to 360°, or, in time, from 0* to 24*.