Lessons in astronomy including uranography. A brief intoductory course without mathematics (1896)
Young, Charles A. (Charles Augustus), 1834-1908 · Boston, London, Ginn and company · leaf 69
e observers horizon. Anobject which is exactly on the celestial equator will have itsdiurnal circle, EQWQf, equally divided by the horizon, andwill be above the horizon just as long as below it. For an observer in the United States, a star north of theequator will have more than half of its diurnal… … Fig. 7. — The Oblique Sphere. § 85] THE OBLIQUE SPHERE. 59 than the night for all stations in northern latitude: howmuch longer will depend both on the latitude of the place andthe suns distance from the equator (its declination). 86. Moreover, when the sun is north of the equator, it will,in the…
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