New Lunar Tables: For Correcting the Apparent Distance of the Moon from the Sun, Fixed Star, Or Planet, for the Effects of Refraction and Parallax : ... to which is Added a New, Easy, and Accurate Method of Finding the Latitude by Double Altitudes ... |
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1st Corr 2nd Corr added angle answering apparent altitude apparent distance Arch Ascension ascertaining bearing BLUNT calculated Chart Coast Compasses corresponding Cosecant Cosine course declination deduced difference directed Dist distance corrected Effect of Refraction Elford enter Table error EXAMPLE give given day greater altitude Greenwich h m s Half Sum horizon horizontal parallax intervening day allow latitude less less altitude longitude LUNAR OBSERVATIONS Mean measuring meridian altitude method minutes month moon moon's parallax morning noon North objects observed altitude observed distance obtained opposite Planet points PRINCIPAL FIXED STARS remainder result Secant second column semidiameter Sept sets sextant ship Sine STAR STAR STAR subtract Surveys Table taken third TRANSITS true altitude True Distance Turner Watch
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| Title | New Lunar Tables: For Correcting the Apparent Distance of the Moon from the Sun, Fixed Star, Or Planet, for the Effects of Refraction and Parallax : ... to which is Added a New, Easy, and Accurate Method of Finding the Latitude by Double Altitudes ... |
| Author | E. C. Ward |
| Contributor | E. & G.W. Blunt (Firm) |
| Edition | 8 |
| Publisher | E. & G. W. Blunt, 1855 |
| Original from | the New York Public Library |
| Digitized | Sep 14, 2009 |
| Length | 23 pages |
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