Astronomical Tables and Formulæ Together with a Variety of Problems Explanatory of Their Use and Application: To which are Prefixed the Elements of the Solar System

Francis Baily

John Richardson, 1827 - Astronomy - 304 pages

Contents

• Sun jMigc: 3
• Planets: 6
• Mercury: 9
• Equivalent expressions for sin a page: 11
• Venus: 13
• Earth: 16
• For the reduction to the meridian second part page 164: 20
• Mars: 28
• Vesta: 31
• Juno: 32
• Ceres: 33
• Pallas: 34
• Jupiter: 35
• Saturn: 38
• Uranus: 41
• Satellites: 43
• Moon: 44
• Satellites of Jupiter: 55
• Satellites of Saturn: 58
• Ring of Saturn: 59
• Satellites of Uranus: 61
• Recapitulation: 62
• cos x: 72
• tan a: 74
• Differences of trigonometrical lines: 76
• General analytical expressions for the sides and angles of any spherical triangle: 77
• Solutions of the cases of rightangled spherical triangles: 78
• of obliqueangled do: 79
• Trigonometrical series: 84
• Multiple arcs: 85
• For computing the Longitude Right Ascension and Declination of the sun and the Angle of Position: 86
• For computing the Longitude and Latitude Right Ascension and Declination of the moon or a star and the Angle of Position: 87
• For computing the Altitude and Azimuth of a heavenly body and its Angle of Variation: 88
• For computing the time c from single altitudes: 89
• For computing the time c from observations near the prime vertical: 90
• For computing the effect of atmospheric refraction: 91
• For computing the equation of equal altitudes: 92
• For computing the correction for the Reduction to the Meridian: 93
• Solstice: 94
• For computing the Angle of the Vertical: 95
• For computing the Moons parallax in Altitude Slfj: 96
• For computing the longitude and altitude of the Nonagesimal: 97
• FORMUL: 98
• two measured arcs of the meridian: 117
• For computing the equations depending on the theory of the elliptical motion of the planets: 118
• For computing the greatest equation of the centre the eccentricity of the orbit and the eccentric anomaly: 119
• For computing the angular distance between: 120
• moon and the sun or a star: 120
• TABLES: 121
• Latitude and Longitude of various Observatories: 123
• Mean JR of the sun for every day of the year: 125
• Corrections for every year from 1800 to 1900: 129
• Correction for the Lunar Nutation: 130
• Correction for the Solar Nutation: 131
• For converting sidereal into mean solar time: 132
• For converting mean solar into sidereal time: 133
• For converting degrees into time and vice versa: 134
• Mr Ivorys Refractions: 141
• Corrections for low altitudes: 142
• Dr Brinkleys Refractions: 143
• Corrections for low altitudes: 144
• Parallax of the sun for the 1st day of every month: 145
• Logarithms of sinaf P: 146
• Logarithms for the equation of equal altitudes: 148
• Altitude of a star when on the prime vertical: 153
• For the reduction to the meridian: 154
• to 1900: 165
• Lunar Nutation of Longitude and of Obliquity of the ecliptic: 166
• Solar Nutation of Longitude and of Obliquity of the ecliptic: 168
• Selenographic positions of the principal lunar spots: 169
• Angle of the Vertical and Logarithm of the earths radius: 170
• Augmentation of the moons semidiameter: 171
• Logarithms to be used with the 1st 2nd and 3rd differences of the moons place: 172
• Annual precession of the equinoxes in Longitude and the constants for R and D: 173
• For aberration of a star in M and first part of do in Dec: 175
• For Lunar Nutation of a star in JR and D: 176
• For Solar Nutation of a star in JR and D: 177
• Circular arcs: 178
• Semidiurnal arcs: 180
• Length of a degree of Longitude and Latitude and of the Pendulum: 181
• Expansion of various substances: 182
• For measuring heights by the barometer: 183
• For converting hours minutes and seconds into decimals of a day: 184
• For converting minutes and seconds into decimals of a degree: 185
• For converting any day into the decimal part of a year: 186
• For converting the centesimal division of the quadrant into the sexagesimal v: 188
• For converting Fahrenheits scale of the thermometer into Reaumurs and the Centesimal: 191
• PROBLEMS: 217

Bibliographic information

• Title: Astronomical Tables and Formulæ Together with a Variety of Problems Explanatory of Their Use and Application: To which are Prefixed the Elements of the Solar System
• Author: Francis Baily
• Publisher: John Richardson, 1827
• Original from: Oxford University
• Digitized: Feb 27, 2009
• Length: 304 pages