| Samuel Vince - 1811 - 260 pages
...ATO, that is, the angle under -which the semidiameter of the earth's shadow, at the moon, apf ears, is equal to the sum of the horizontal parallaxes of the sun and moon diminished by the apparent semidiameter of the sun. In eclipses of the moon, the shadow is found to... | |
| Samuel Vince - 1814 - 602 pages
...CFA-OTA+TOC, that is, the angle under which the semidiameter of the earth's shadow at the moon appears, is equal to the sum of the horizontal parallaxes of the sun and moon diminished by the apparent semidiameter of tJie sun. In eclipses of the moon, the shadow is found to... | |
| Samuel Vince - 1820 - 472 pages
...+ TOC, that is, the angle under which the semidiameter of the earth's shadow, at the moon, appears, is equal to the sum of the horizontal parallaxes of the sun and moon diminished by the apparent semidiameter of the sun. In eclipses of the moon, the shadow is found to... | |
| Thomas Curtis - 1829 - 852 pages
...parallax CST. 6R4. 4. The apparent semidiameter of the earth's dark shadow IK, upon the moon's orbit, is equal to the sum of the horizontal parallaxes of the sun and moon, less the sun's apparent semidiarneter. For the angle V С I ~ С IT — С VJ = С IT — S С А +... | |
| Thomas Squire - 1836 - 332 pages
...the moon. \9Ci. The semidiameter of the earth's shadow at the moon's orbit, appears under an angle equal to the sum of the horizontal parallaxes of the sun and moon, diminished by the sun's apparent semidiameter. ///us. For the angle r E o = E r B— ECH ; but ECH... | |
| 1899 - 972 pages
...made at the distance of the moon, prove that half the angle which the section subtends at the earth is equal to the sum of the horizontal parallaxes of the sun and moon minus the angle subtended by the sun's semidiameter. 8. Explain the terms conjunction and elongation... | |
| Francis Baily - 1827 - 340 pages
...part where it is traversed by the moon, is about 2£ times greater than the diameter of the moon; and is equal to the sum of the horizontal parallaxes of the sun and moon, minus the semidiameter of the sun. The magnitude and duration of every lunar eclipse will consequently... | |
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