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Astronomy for students and general readers (1880)

Newcomb, Simon, 1835-1909, Holden, Edward Singleton, 1846-1914, joint author · New York : H. Holt and company · leaf 369

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herefore is not occultedat all. Let us next consider Jupiter in the position J near the bottom ofthe figure, the shadow, as before, pointing from the planet directlyaway from the sun. If the shadow were a visible object, the ob-server on the earth at T could see it projected out on the right ofthe… … Fig. 94.—phenomena op jupiters satellites. is called an eclipse disappearance. If the satellite is one of the twoouter ones, he will be able to see it reappear again after it comesout of the shadow before it is occulted behind the planet. Soon iifterwnrd the occultation will occur, and it will…

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