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

Francis Baily

R. Taylor, 1827 - Astronomy - 267 pages

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Table of Contents

Index

Sun page	3

Planets	6

Mercury	9

Venus	13

Earth	16

FORMULA	19

Mars	28

Vesta	31

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

For determining the true lunar distance 119	120

Latitude and Longitude of various Observatories	123

Mean R 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

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

Equivalent expressions for sin x page	71

cOS X	72

tan x	73

Relative to two arcs A and B	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	96

For computing the longitude and altitude of the Nonagesimal	97

two measured ares of the meridian	117

For computing the equations depending on the theory of the elliptical motion of the planets	118

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 sinP	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	158

For the reduction to the meridian second part page	164

Mean obliquity of the ecliptic for every year from 1800 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 A and first part of do in Dec	175

For Lunar Nutation of a star in R and D	176

For Solar Nutation of a star in R 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	188

For converting Fahrenheits scale of the thermometer into Reaumurs and the Centesimal	191

To determine the height of mountains by means	263

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Title	Astronomical Tables and Formulć 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	R. Taylor, 1827
Original from	Oxford University
Digitized	Feb 27, 2009
Length	267 pages

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