Evening Amusements: Or, the Beauty of the Heavens Displayed...William Frend J. Mawman., 1820 - Astronomy |
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... nearly five de- grees four minutes , in the seventh degree of the fourth sign ( ) ; and it decreases afterwards to the end of the month , being , on the last mid- night , about two degrees and three quarters , in the first degree of the ...
... nearly five de- grees four minutes , in the seventh degree of the fourth sign ( ) ; and it decreases afterwards to the end of the month , being , on the last mid- night , about two degrees and three quarters , in the first degree of the ...
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... Lion , and her recess from this star in the barren space of this constellation is the chief feature in her course . On the 5th , she rises nearly with B 5 JANUARY , 1820 . 9 The Moon rises, on the 1st, about three ...
... Lion , and her recess from this star in the barren space of this constellation is the chief feature in her course . On the 5th , she rises nearly with B 5 JANUARY , 1820 . 9 The Moon rises, on the 1st, about three ...
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... nearly with ( 3 ) the second of the Lion , being nearly at equal and the first , now at On the 6th , she rises second of the Virgin . distances from this star some distance above her . under and near to ( B ) the On the 7th , she rises ...
... nearly with ( 3 ) the second of the Lion , being nearly at equal and the first , now at On the 6th , she rises second of the Virgin . distances from this star some distance above her . under and near to ( B ) the On the 7th , she rises ...
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... past nine , the two stars in the horns of the Bull being to the west of her , ( B ) the second at nearly the same height , and ( 2 ) the sixth below her and nearest to the meridian . The brightest star JANUARY , 1820 . 13.
... past nine , the two stars in the horns of the Bull being to the west of her , ( B ) the second at nearly the same height , and ( 2 ) the sixth below her and nearest to the meridian . The brightest star JANUARY , 1820 . 13.
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... nearly the same . He is first to be seen , and will be seen by the keen astronomer , in the barren space between the eastern and western branches of the Milky- way , to the west of ( u ) the twelfth of the Archer , under which star he ...
... nearly the same . He is first to be seen , and will be seen by the keen astronomer , in the barren space between the eastern and western branches of the Milky- way , to the west of ( u ) the twelfth of the Archer , under which star he ...
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afternoon annular annular eclipse appearance Archer ascending node astronomers barren space Ceres comet constellation Crab creases decreases degrees and three directing her course distance east eclipse eighth degree errour fifth sign five degrees fixed stars four degrees four small stars four stars fourth sign Goat gree half past heavens hour Hyades inferior conjunction Jupiter latitude increases latter star Lion Mars meridian minutes past eight minutes past eleven minutes past nine minutes south Moon passes Moon rises Moon-set morning star motion being direct Nautical Almanack nearest ninth sign noon northern observed passed this star passes the ecliptick past seven planet Pleiades Regulus Saturn seven degrees seventh sign sixth sign southern latitude Spica stars in square stars in triangle Sun-rise tail third sign thirty-eight minutes thirty-one minutes thirty-two minutes three degrees three first stars twelfth sign twenty twenty-nine minutes twenty-sixth degree Twins Venus Virgin volume for 1806
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