The Nautical Almanac and Astronomical Ephemeris for the Year ...order of the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, 1793 - Nautical almanacs |
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Acts of Parliament Afcen Affigns Aldebaran alfo alſo Altitude Antares Arietis Author or Authors Board of Longitude Cafe Calculations caufe Center from SUN conftructed corrected Declination Difcovery Diff Diſtance DISTANCES of MOON's Eclipfes Emerfions Ephemeris faid Commiffioners fame fecond Difference fettled fhall fhould firft firſt fixt Stars folar Fomalhaut fubftracted fuch Method Greenwich H. M. S. Days Heliocentric Hourly Logar Immerfions Increaſe Latitude by Account lefs Longitude at Sea Lunar Tables MAYER'S Tables mean Longitude Merid Midn Midnight Month MOON's Center Moon's Longitude NAUTICAL ALMANAC neceffary NEVIL MASKELYNE Number Obfervations Paffage Right Afcenfion paffing the Meridian Parallax Perfon or Perfons PLANETS Geocentric Pollux propofed publiſhed refpective Regulus Requifite Tables Reward or Sum SATELLITES of JUPITER Side of Noon Spica STARS EAST Stars Names Sum or Sums Sun's Longitude Sunday after Trinity Teleſcopes thefe thofe TOBIA MAYER true Latitude uſeful Week Weft XVh XVIII ΙΟ
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Page 160 - Star refpeetively, the Mean of the Refults is to be taken as probably approaching neareft to the true Longitude. In particular the Moon's...
Page 144 - Royal. To the NAUTICAL ALMANACS of 1797, 1798, 1799 and 1800 are added, Tables to improve and render more general, the Method of finding the Latitude from Two obferved Altitudes of the Sun, with the Time between. By John...