A high-school astronomy: in which the descriptive, physical, and practical are combined .. (1853)
Mattison, Hiram, 1811-1868 · New York, F. J. Huntingdon [etc.] · leaf 110
and by mark-ing her position, with ref-ence to the stars, fromnight to night, her dailyjourneys will appear pro-minent and striking. The estimate of 13° 10 35 is madefor a sidereal day of twenty-four hours. In the above cut, the daily progress of themoon may be traced from her conjunction or… … THE MOON. 107 224. In her journeyings eastward, the moon oftenseems to run over and obscurethe distant planets and stars.This phenomenon is called an oc-cupation. The adjoining cut represents the new moon asjust about to obscure a distant star, by passing be-tween us and it. In 1850, she occulted…
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