10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «HELIOMETER»
Discover the use of
heliometer in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
heliometer and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Heliometer Observations for Determination of Stellar ...
Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.
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Heliometer-Determinations of Stellar Parallax in the ...
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923.
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The System of the Stars
Jlfthorl Date rarallax Distance in Pro]iev In Miles ner Light-years Motion Second
Photography 1888 o:io 20 0%5 10-8 Micrometer 1867 0-29 11 2-80 28-3
Heliometer 1883 0-057 57 2-05 101 Photography 1888 0-07 47 0-05 2
Micrometer 1855 ...
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Of the Human Heart: A Biography of Benjamin Peirce
At the end of his presentation, Peirce noted the necessity of a heliometer to make
these precise measurements and the lack of one in America.28 Peirce, Bache,
and Armsby discussed the possibility of installing a heliometer in the Dudley ...
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Minding the Heavens: The Story of our Discovery of the Milky Way
heliometer. While Struve traveled and recovered from the loss of his brother and
two children, his sympathetic friend Bessel enjoyed some productive years.
Beginning in 1821, he had begun to compile a catalog of the tens of thousands of
...
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Mapping the Sky: Past Heritage and Future Directions : ...
ASTROMETRY WITH THE YALE HEL IOMETER, 1882-1910 Dorrit Hoffleit and
William van Altena Yale University Observatory P.O. Box 6666 New Haven, CT
06511 In 1880 Yale ordered a 6-inch heliometer from Repsold of Hamburg which
...
International Astronomical Union. Symposium, S. Débarbat, 1988
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Transactions of the International Astronomical Union
If the knowledge of the scale would be sufficient then one should expect, on the
ground of the above result, that the heliometer measurements, with their best
known scale, would lead to the true, constant dimensions of the Moon. As a
matter of ...
International Astronomical Union (London)
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History of Astronomy: An Encyclopedia
Heliometer A telescope that produces double images for precision determination
of angular sizes or separations. In 1743, Servington Savery appears to have had
the original idea of using either a bisected objective lens or two fixed equal ...
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British University Observatories, 1772-1939
5" refractor. Schroter's 18'£" refractor (1793) (2) 1807-21 (3) moved 1930 1888 6"
Repsold heliometer 1930 Hainberg outstation 1 3 'z> " astrograph Leipzig (1) 1
790 1790 2" transit (2) 1861 1 830 4'A" Fraunhofer refractor 1861 6" P&M circle.
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The History of the Telescope
He called it a heliometer or astrometer and, like Savery, used it for measuring the
sun's apparent diameter at different times of the year.“ Dollond's plan of dividing a
single object-glass meant that the tivo semi-lenses could be applied to ...
6 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «HELIOMETER»
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heliometer is used in the context of the following news items.
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The first floor holds a faux heliometer (used to measure the sun) made of over forty stacked white plastic paint buckets containing a small ... «Huffington Post, Feb 14»
A slice of Oxford: The dreaming spires inspire new life
The extraordinary octagonal Observatory, the Observer's house and stables, and the copper-roofed Heliometer (for measuring the sun) were ... «The Independent, Dec 13»
Transit of Venus: German Scientists Visit Hartford
Buildings erected by the German scientists on the Trinity College Campus: Eastern Observatory, Heliometer House, Western Observatory. «WNPR News, Dec 13»
The Parallax View
... known as a heliometer. The number he came up with was a parallax of 313.6 milliarcseconds, or 0.00000145 degree. That gave a distance ... «Santa Barbara Edhat, Sep 13»
The Observatory opens for the public in 2012
Another beautiful specimen is a heliometer from the 1850s. As the name indicates, it was originally designed for studying possible variations in ... «Universitas Helsingiensis, Apr 11»
Strong tidal dissipation in Io and Jupiter from astrometric observations
We used an extensive set of astrometric observations that started in 1891, with heliometer measurements and the first photographic plates, and ... «Nature.com, Jun 09»
