The Nautical Almanac and Astronomical Ephemeris for the Year ...order of the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, 1808 - Ephemerides |
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Afcen aforefaid Aldebaran alfo alſo Altitude Antares Aquila Arietis Board of Longitude Calculations Center from SUN Ceti computed conftructed decreafe Diff Diſtance DISTANCES of MOON's Eaft Eclipfes of Jupiter's Emerfions Ephemeris faid Commiffioners fame fecond Difference ferve fhall firft fixed Stars Fomalhaut fubtract fufficient Full Moon Laft Geocentric GEORGIAN Greenwich H. M. S. Days Heliocentric Hourly Logar Immerfions increaſe Latitude Logarithm Longitude at Sea Lunar Tables MAYER's Merid Midn Midnight Month Moon Laft Quarter MOON's Center Moon's Latitude Moon's Longitude Motion NAUTICAL ALMANAC NEVIL MASKELYNE Node Number obferved Paffage Right Afcenfion paffing the Meridian Parallax Pegafi Phafes Pollux publiſhed Quarter New Moon Regulus Requifite Tables Reward or Sum SATELLITES of JUPITER Semidiam Spica STARS EAST Stars Names Stars Noon STARS WEST Sun's Longitude Sun's right Afcenfion Sunday Teleſcopes thefe thofe TOBIA MAYER uſeful Week Weft XVh XVIII ΙΟ
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Page 151 - Jupiter, except near the Oppofition of Jupiter to the Sun, when the Satellite approaches nearer to his Body.
Page 152 - Cape flmuld be 18". 23-. 15" Eaft of Greenwich, becauie the Time fuppofed to be obferved at the Cape is more than that of the Epbc/neris. - It is to be obferved that a correfpondent Observation of an Eclipfe of a Satellite of Jupiter, made under a well-known Meridian, is to be preferred to the Calculations of the...
Page 151 - Jupiter be 8° above the Horizon of the Place, and the Sun as much below it.