Evening Amusements: Or, the Beauty of the Heavens Displayed...William Frend J. Mawman., 1820 - Astronomy |
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... tail ; Jupiter and Venus , to whom she is directing her course , being at some distance above her , and Saturn , near to whom she will also pass , being considerably farther off . On the 17th , she is perceived to have passed the four ...
... tail ; Jupiter and Venus , to whom she is directing her course , being at some distance above her , and Saturn , near to whom she will also pass , being considerably farther off . On the 17th , she is perceived to have passed the four ...
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... tail of the Goat ( 7 ) , and the next day ( 8 ) the fourth of this constella- tion ; on the 18th , she passes Jupiter , at the distance of only forty - seven minutes to the south of him . Under the two planets we notice the four small ...
... tail of the Goat ( 7 ) , and the next day ( 8 ) the fourth of this constella- tion ; on the 18th , she passes Jupiter , at the distance of only forty - seven minutes to the south of him . Under the two planets we notice the four small ...
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... , she is seen under the small stars in the tail of the Ram . The small star just above her is ( e ) the fifth of this constellation , and she passes ( 8 ) the fourth before Moon - set . On On the 20th , the Moon is on the 32 FEBRUARY , ...
... , she is seen under the small stars in the tail of the Ram . The small star just above her is ( e ) the fifth of this constellation , and she passes ( 8 ) the fourth before Moon - set . On On the 20th , the Moon is on the 32 FEBRUARY , ...
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... tail to the east of her , On the 12th , she rises with the small stars in the tail of the Goat , to pass between the two highest and the two lowest , but she does not reach the nearest of the former stars before Sun - rise . On the 14th ...
... tail to the east of her , On the 12th , she rises with the small stars in the tail of the Goat , to pass between the two highest and the two lowest , but she does not reach the nearest of the former stars before Sun - rise . On the 14th ...
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... tail of the Ram , the former stars above , and the latter below her . She is direct- ing her course straight to the Pleiades , reaching them about Moon - set . On the 19th , she is seen to have travelled , with considerable rapidity ...
... tail of the Ram , the former stars above , and the latter below her . She is direct- ing her course straight to the Pleiades , reaching them about Moon - set . On the 19th , she is seen to have travelled , with considerable rapidity ...
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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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