Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 26Priestley and Weale, 1866 - Astronomy Includes lists of additions to the Society's library, usually separately paged. |
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Academy Adams Airy's micrometer angle aperture appears areal velocity Astronomer Royal Benjamin Gompertz bright Burckhardt's Semidiameter calculations centre circle coefficient Comet Correction of Burckhardt's Delaunay determined diagram diameter disks distance disturbing force ditto double stars Earth Earth's orbit Eclipse Encke Ephemeris equation Equatoreal errors excentricity friction give Gompertz granules Greenwich Hamilton Hansen's Tables heliometer Herschel instrument investigation Laplace longitude luminous lunar acceleration Lunar Theory mean motion measurements Memoirs meridian meteor method Monthly Notices Moon Moon's mean motion Nautical Almanac Nebula observations obtained Occultation paper parallax period photosphere Plana planets position prism produced Prof quantity refractor remarkable retardation Right Ascensions rotation Royal Astronomical Society Royal Observatory Sciences screw secular acceleration Serpentis Smyth solar Solar Eclipse spectrum Sun's surface telescope tion variable Variable Stars
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Page 180 - And Isaiah the prophet cried unto the Lord : and he brought the shadow ten degrees backward, by which it had gone down in the dial of Ahaz.
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Page 158 - ... multiples of the mean angular distance of the moon from the sun, of the mean anomalies of the moon and sun, and of the moon's mean distance from the node ; and the moon's longitude is expressed by means of a series of sines of the same angles, the coefficients of the periodic terms being functions of the ratio of the sun's mean motion to that of the moon, of the eccentricities of the two orbits and of their mutual inclination. Now, if the eccentricity of the earth's orbit be supposed to remain...
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Page 157 - ... permanent alteration would be produced. In reality, however, the magnitude of the disturbing force by which this inequality is caused, depends in some degree on the eccentricity of the earth's orbit; and as this is continually diminishing, the disturbing forces at equal intervals before and after conjunction will not be exactly equal. Hence the orbit will no longer be symmetrically situated with respect to the line of conjunction, and therefore the effects of the tangential force before and after...
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Page 256 - Sun's surface in a small field, and to examine the identical objects with every variety of power, and under circumstances fit for the use of 400 to 600 with advantage. I thus arrived at the decided conviction that these brilliant objects were merely different conditions of the surface of the comparatively large luminous clouds themselves — ridges, waves, hills, knolls, or whatever else they might be called — differing in form, in brilliancy, and probably in elevation...
Page 157 - ... that this is not strictly true, and he proceeds briefly to point out the manner in which the inequalities of the moon's motion are modified by a gradual change of the disturbing force, so as to give rise to such an alteration of the areal velocity. As an example, he takes the case of the variation, the most direct effect of the disturbing force. In the ordinary theory, the orbit of the moon, as affected by this inequality only, would be symmetrical with respect to the line of conjunction with...