The Nautical Almanac and Astronomical Ephemeris for the Year ...order of the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, 1817 - Nautical almanacs |
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Affigns aforefaid Aftronomical Aldebaran alfo altitude Antares Aquila Arietis Author or Authors Board of Longitude Cafe Calculations Center from SUN computed conftructed corrected Days Noon Diff Diſcovery Diſtance DISTANCES of Moon's Eclipfes Eclipfes of Jupiter's Emersions Ephemeris Equation faid Commiffioners fame fecond Difference ferve fhall firft Difference firſt Fomalhaut fubtracted fuch Method fufficiently Full Moon Last Geocentric Greenwich H. M. S. Days Heliocentric increaſe laft Latitude Longitude at Sea Lunar Tables mean Merid Midn Midnight Month Moon's Center MOON'S Longitude MOON's Right MOON'S Semidiameter Motion Nautical Almanac Node Number Obfervations paffing the Meridian Parallax Passage Age Pegasi Perfon or Perfons Pollux Proportional Logarithm publiſhed Purpoſe refpective Regulus Requifite Tables Reward or Sum Right Ascension SAMUEL VINCE SATELLITES of JUPITER SATURN Spica STARS EAST Stars Names STARS WEST Sun's Longitude Sun's right Afcenfion Teleſcopes thefe theſe uſeful vended Week Weft XVh XVIII
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Page 131 - Center over the Meridian of any Place; and had the Sun no Motion in the Ecliptic, or was his Motion reduced to the Equator or in right Afcenfio* uniform, he would always return to the Meridian after equal Intervals of Time.
Page 127 - Day are the same in this Method as in the civil Account at Noon, and from Noon till Midnight; but from Midnight till Noon they differ; for...
Page 156 - Tables still further corrected by Mr. MASON, entitled by him, TABLES of 1780, as having been completed about that Time, being rendered more exact than the former by the Addition of eight Equations to the Number in MAYER'S Tables, taken from MAYER'S Theory...
Page 135 - Jupiter, except near the Oppofition of Jupiter to the Sun, when the Satellite approaches nearer to his Body.
Page 148 - Table fo printed, publiflied, or vended, forfeit and pay the Sum of Twenty Pounds ; to be recovered by Action of Debt, Bill, Plaint, or Information, in any of His Majefty's Courts...
Page 131 - Clocks and Watches ought to be. This Retardation or Acceleration of the Sun's coming to the Meridian is called the Equation of Time, and is contained in the laft Column but One of Page II.
Page 144 - Orbits, or furtheft from the Earth, when they are marked to the right hand or Weft of Jupiter approaching him ; or to the left Hand or Eaft of Jupiter receding from him ; but are in the inferior Part of their Orbits, or neareft to the Earth, when they are marked to the right Hand or Weft of Jupiter receding from him, or to the left or Eaft of Jupiter approaching him.