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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0's App 2nd Corr 3rd Cor 4th Corr Aldebaran Altitude Hor angle apparent altitude=12 apparent distance Arch A Arch Bahama Bank calculated celestial pole Chart corrected for refraction Cosecant Cosine declination Dist Distance 1st Corr Distance 4th distance corrected Effect of Refraction Elford differs enlightened limb enter Table EXAMPLE FIND THE LATITUDE Fomalhaut G. W. BLUNT given day greater altitude Gulf of Mexico h m s Half Sum horizon horizontal parallax intervening day allow less altitude longitude LUNAR DISTANCES LUNAR OBSERVATIONS moon Moon's Apparent Altitude moon's parallax Nautical Almanac nearest limb noon observed altitude observed distance overplus parallax in altitude parallax in distance Pleiades PRINCIPAL FIXED STARS refraction and parallax right ascension Secant second column Semidi Semidiam Sept sextant ship Sine and Tang Stansbury's method STAR STAR STAR sun's altitude sun's parallax Table VIII true altitude True Distance TRUE MERIDIAN ALTITUDES tude 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 |
| 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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