 | Tobias Smollett - English literature - 1803 - 614 pages
...Lieut. Maignon, respecting theoretic and practical Explanations of a trigonometric Chart for reducing the apparent Distance of the Moon from the Sun, or a Star, at a true Distance, and for resorving other Questions of Navigation, by M. 1'Eveque.' — This is an... | |
 | John Bonnycastle - Trigonometry - 1806 - 464 pages
...hour from noon when each altitude was taken, the azimuth at each observation, 8rc. 241 PROBLEM XXII. The apparent distance of the moon from the sun, or a star, and their apparent altitudes, or zenith distances, being given, to find their true distances, as seen... | |
 | Thomas Thomson - Agriculture - 1813 - 514 pages
...Helena. Ibid. p. 586. 8. Concise Rules for computing the Effeots of Refraction and Parallax in varying- the apparent Distance of the Moon from the Sun or a Star; also an Easy Rule of Approximation for computing the Distance of the Moon from a Star, the Longitudes... | |
 | Books - 1814 - 574 pages
...discussions of this subject wholly unnecessary. Investigations relative to the Problem for clearing the apparent Distance of the Moon from the Sun or a Star, from the Effects of ^ Parallax and Refraction, and an easy and concise Method pointed out. By the Same.... | |
 | Ralph Griffiths, George Edward Griffiths - 1814 - 574 pages
...discussions of this subject wholly unnecessary. Investigations relative to the Problem for clearing the apparent Distance of the Moon from the Sun or a Star, from the Effects of Parallax and Refraction, and an easy and concise Method pointed out. By the Same.—The... | |
 | American Academy of Arts and Sciences - 1818 - 474 pages
...equal to i°-Jl°.a. [lf-ft. cos.S(f+e)|. sin. y — 3°. a ft. cos. S(f +C). IV. Method of correcting the apparent distance of the Moon from the Sun, or a Star for the effects of Parallax and Refraction. BY NATHANIEL BOWDITCH, LL. D. A HE method of correcting... | |
 | John Farrar - Logarithms - 1822 - 270 pages
...same. Hence, by means of a table of the t There arc many ways of abridging the process for ohtaining the true from the apparent distance of the moon from...the moon completes a revolution of 360° in about 30 days, it moves at the rate of 12° in 24 hours, that is, 30' or its own diameter in an hour. Its... | |
 | Robert Watt - English literature - 1824 - 720 pages
...Helen«. Ib. 647. —Concise Rules for Computing the Effects of Refraction and Parallax, in varying the apparent Distance of the Moon from the Sun, or a Star, See. Ib. 152. 1764. — On the Equation of Time, and true Manner of Computing it. Ib. 163. — Astronomical... | |
 | Thomas Keith - Navigation - 1826 - 504 pages
...to the middle time between the observations be used. (S) PROBLEM xvii. (Plate III. Fig. 12.) Given the apparent distance of the moon from the sun, or a star, and their apparent zenith distances, to ßnd their true distance, as seen from the earth's centre.... | |
 | David Thomson - Longitude - 1831 - 316 pages
...Moon or any other Planet, the time may be found, the same as by a fixed Star. i. PROBLEM 11L Given the Apparent Distance of the Moon from the Sun, or a Star, together with the Apparent Allitudes of the Objects, and the Moon's Horizontal Parallax : tojind the... | |
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Method of correcting the apparent distance of the Moon from the Sun, or a Star, for the effects of Parallax and Refraction. 
