The American Ephemeris and Nautical Almanac

Download or read book The American Ephemeris and Nautical Almanac written by United States Naval Observatory and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-10-28 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The American Ephemeris and Nautical Almanac: For the Year 1875 In the volume for 1865 the star ephemeris was greatly enlarged; new places of the stars adopted; the form for moon culminations and moon-culminating stars changed so that less space was required; mean solar time, instead of sidereal time, used in the dates of the ephemeris for the meridian of Washington; bessnl's notation in the formula for star-reductions substituted for. Baily's. Several other changes of less importance were also made. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.