Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Band 22Priestley and Weale, 1862 Includes lists of additions to the Society's library, usually separately paged. |
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2r+g Alhazen Annex appears April Astronomer Royal bright Calculation Catalogue clock Comet comparison computed corrected crater dark Decl declination diameter difference disque distance Eclipse edge Egress Ephemeris equations Equatoreal error excentricity eye-piece favourable Greenwich inches aperture ingress instruments July June Jupiter Jupiter's Satellites latitude light limb longitude Lunar m² e m² n² March Mare Crisium Mars mass Mean Solar measures Memoir meridian Monthly Notices Moon Moon's motion N.P.D. from Observation Nautical Almanac nearly Nebula nucleus obtained Occultation orbit parallax perihelion Phenomena of Jupiter's position Prof proper motion R.A. from Observation Radcliffe Right Ascension ring Royal Observatory Saturn shadow Sirius Small Planets soleil spot star Sun's disk surface taches telescope term tion Titan Transit of Mercury Variable Stars visible W. R. Dawes Weisse Winnecke
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Seite 137 - The stars shall fade away, the sun himself Grow dim with age, and Nature sink in years, But thou shalt flourish in immortal youth, Unhurt amidst the war of elements, The wreck of matter, and the crush of worlds.
Seite 24 - Astronomical and Meteorological Observations made at the Radcliffe Observatory in the year 1858.
Seite 133 - To him is mainly due the construction of the photo.heliograph in use at Kew, which is regarded as a model instrument in taking instantaneous sun.pictures ; and as he has fully described in print his processes and instruments, he ' has thus deepened the feelings of obligation towards him by giving...
Seite 19 - In the Monthly Notices, vol. xix. p. 293, are printed some extracts from the first Annual Report to the Observatory Board, 22d Dec. 1858, giving an account of the establishment and the position of the Observatory. The Transit Circle arrived from England about the end of December 1858; but the regular observations were not commenced until June 1859.
Seite 130 - MEDAL. Prof. Albrecht von Kolliker, For.Mem.RS The[Copley Medal is given to one who well deserves the highest honour that it is in the power of the Royal Society to confer. For nearly sixty years past Albrecht von Kolliker has made contributions of the highest value to histology, embryology, 'and comparative anatomy. Though his labours have embraced so wide a field, they have always been of a high order of excellence, and have often been of far-reaching...
Seite 27 - SIR, I AM commanded by the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury to acquaint you that, the...
Seite 143 - On the Proper Motion of Sirius in Declination. By Truman Henry Safford, Assistant at the Observatory of Harvard College. It is well known that Sirius exhibits irregularities of proper motion, both in Right Ascension and Declination. Bessel (Ast. Nach. Nos. 514-16), and Dr. CAF Peters, in a Memoir, " Ueber die eigene Bewegung der Sirius (Habilitationsschrift), Konigsberg, 1851,
Seite 135 - ... apparatus made for him by Mr. Dalmeyer, after the pattern of the Kew photoheliograph. Mr. De La Rue announced at the last Meeting of the Society, that by applying the stereoscope to the examination of the Sun's disk, as he had formerly done in the case of the Moon, he had discovered that the faculse on the surface of the Sun are to be found in the outer or highest regions of the solar photosphere. I ought not to conclude without alluding to Mr. De La Rue's observations on the Solar Eclipse of...
Seite 74 - If, however, the upper radiating matter of the sun is in any degree transparent and diathermanous, or permeable to radiation from lower strata (which in all probability is • According to M.
Seite 26 - Astronomical Observations made at the Observatory of Cambridge by the Rev. JAMES CHALLIS, MA, FRS, FRAS, Plumian Professor of Astronomy and Experimental Philosophy in the University of Cambridge, and Fellow of Trinity College.