 | Benjamin Peirce - Plane trigonometry - 1845 - 498 pages
...observed right ascension, might be By a moon's transit. determined from the right ascension, which is given in the Nautical Almanac for every hour. But...passing from the meridian of Greenwich to that which is 124 from Greenwich ; so that if the motion in right ascension were perfectly uniform, the right ascension,... | |
 | Charles Leander Doolittle - Interpolation - 1883 - 666 pages
...easy matter for the observer to select suitable stars from the general list of the ephemeris. Let A, = the right ascension of the moon's bright limb at the instant of culmination ; A = the right ascension of the moon's centre; & = clock time of observed transit of limb,... | |
 | John Whitelaw - Surveying - 1902 - 568 pages
...culminating stars is given in the Nautical Almanac. From the time interval between the culminations the right ascension of the moon's bright limb at the instant of observation may be found. In the Nautical Almanac the right ascension of the moon's bright limb is... | |
 | John Whitelaw - Surveying - 1916 - 582 pages
...culminating stars is given in the Nautical Almanac. From the time interval between the culminations the right ascension of the moon's bright limb at the instant of observation may be found. In the Nautical Almanac the right ascension of the moon's bright limb is... | |
 | William Norman Thomas - Surveying - 1920 - 552 pages
...Stars. — In the Nautical Almanac, under the heading of Moon-Culminating Stars, are tabulated : (i.) The right ascension of the moon's bright limb, at the instant of transit — lower and upper — at Greenwich, and (ii.) The variations in right ascension for a difference... | |
 | John Whitelaw - Surveying - 1924 - 642 pages
...culminating stars is given in the Nautical Almanac. From the time interval between the culminations the right ascension of the moon's bright limb at the instant of observation may be found. In the Nautical Almanac the right ascension of the moon's bright limb is... | |
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... meridian transit of the moon's bright limb and also the local mean time of the meridian transit of a fixed star near the moon and whose right ascension is known. A list of convenient stars called moon culminating stars is given in the Nautical Almanac.... 