Elements of descriptive astronomy, a text-book (1897)
Howe, Herbert A · New York, Silver · leaf 135
112 DESCRIPTIVE ASTRONOMY. out by the moon's brilliancy as it approaches them. At the instant when the limb of the moon gets into line between the star and the observer's eye, the star vanishes as if annihilated. After an hour or less, the star reappears on the opposite side of the moon. Both the… … Fig. 107. — THE MOON: PHOTOGRAPHED AT THE LICK OBSERVATORY. errors of their chronometers : from the data given in the Nautical Almanac the Greenwich time of the occurrence of an occultation of a given star, as seen at a given place, is computed. The chronom- eter reading is noted at the time of the…
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