An Elementary Introduction to the Nautical Almanac, and Astronomical Ephemeris. G P Payne
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Author: G P Payne
Number of Pages: 30 pages
Published Date: 01 Mar 2012
Publisher: Rarebooksclub.com
Publication Country: Miami Fl, United States
Language: English
ISBN: 9781130172256
File Name: An.Elementary.Introduction.to.the.Nautical.Almanac,.and.Astronomical.Ephemeris.pdf
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1842 Excerpt: ... Every Astronomical occurrence is a phenomenon. Pisces (the fishes). The sign of the Zodiac which the Son enters about the 19th. of February and leaves about the 20th. of March. Planets. See Solar System.. Plane. See Circles. Poles. There is a Fixed Star in the North which appears always to bear the same, or very nearly the same relative position to the Earth; the Pole Star, which shines with a steady, but dead kind of light, a little less than 2 degrees from the true North Polar point. Whilst all the other Fixed Stars appear, like the Sun, to describe diurnal circles in the heavens, (an appearance owing to the daily revolution of the Earth, ) the Pole Star but slightly changes its position, and indeed appears to remain stationary. Instrumental observations, however, show that the Pole Star describes daily a small circle of 3 diameter, and that therefore it is 1 degrees from the polar point, which is the centre of the circle. At the North pole of the Earth the North pole of the heavens is immediately in the zenith. At the Equator the North and South poles of the heavens both appear at the horizon, and to be parallel to the centre of the Earth. Half way between the Equator and the North pole of the Earth, (or in 45North Latitude, ) the North pole of the heavens is elevated, or at an altitude of, 45, and appears half way between the zenith and the horizon. The poles of the Ecliptic are points in the heavens 90 from every part of the Ecliptic circle, and about 23 from the poles of the Equator, or North and South poles, Precession of the Equinoxes. To enable the student to have any conception of this interesting subject he must first have a clear impression of the motion of the Nodes of a Planet, or Satellite, as attempted to be explained in the insta...
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