Transit Comet Eclipse

by Muharem Bazdulj

In these subtly linked novellas, Muharem Bazdulj takes the reader across several centuries of Yugoslav history, finding in three very different sets of circumstances a common longing to escape the desperation and depression of life in the ...

Transit Comet Eclipse

Author: Muharem Bazdulj

Publisher: Bosnian Literature

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"Originally published in Bosnian by Ajfelov most as Tranzit, kometa, pomraecenje in 2007" -- Verso title page.

Eclipses Transits and Comets of the Nineteenth Century

by Stella Cottam

The total eclipse of 1869. Hours at Home; A ... The total solar eclipse [from The
London Daily News]. Friends' Review ... The transit. The Independent, 34(1776),
17 (14 December 1882). The transit. The New York Times, 6 December 1882, p.
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Eclipses Transits and Comets of the Nineteenth Century

Author: Stella Cottam

Publisher: Springer

ISBN: 3319083414

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Grabbing the attention of poets, politicians and the general public alike, a series of spectacular astronomical events in the late 1800s galvanized Americans to take a greater interest in astronomy than ever before. At a time when the sciences were not yet as well established in the United States as they were in Europe, this public interest and support provided the growing scientific community in the United States with the platform they needed to advance the field of astronomy in the United States. Earlier in the 19th century comets, meteors and the discovery of the planet Neptune were all sources of inspiration to the general public. The specific events to be considered here are the total solar eclipses of 1868, 1869 and 1878 and the transits of Venus of 1874 and 1882. The available media responded to public interest as well as generating more interest. These events laid the groundwork that led to today's thriving network of American amateur astronomers and provide a fascinating look at earlier conceptions of the stars.

The Sidereal Messenger

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H . S. Pritchett .. 126 EDITORIAL Notes : Wells ' comet .... Transit of Venus .... Late
total eclipse .... Asteroid Zones .... Suspected variable stars .... Olivet observatory .
... Halsted observatory .... Allegheny observatory .... Yale college observatory .

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Astronomical Register

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Statistics of observatories , 116 Vulcan , 114 Comets , Theory of , 45 , 172 , 180
Nucleus of , 197 Comet , Winnecke's , 72 ... 130 Danson , Theory of Comets , 45
on Large Object - glasses , 246 De la Rue , on the Transit of Venus , Solar
Eclipse ...

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Celestial Shadows

by John Westfall

This book looks in detail at the way eclipses and other celestial shadows have given us amazing insights into the nature of the objects in our solar system and how they are even helping us discover and analyze planets that orbit stars other ...

Celestial Shadows

Author: John Westfall

Publisher: Springer

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Much of what is known about the universe came from the study of celestial shadows. This book looks in detail at the way eclipses and other celestial shadows have given us amazing insights into the nature of the objects in our solar system and how they are even helping us discover and analyze planets that orbit stars other than our Sun. A variety of eclipses, transits, and occultations of the mooons of Jupiter and Saturn, Pluto and its satellite Charon, asteroids and stars have helped astronomers to work out their dimensions, structures, and shapes - even the existence of atmospheres and structures of exoplanets. Long before Columbus set out to reach the Far East by sailing West, the curved shadow of the Earth on the Moon during a lunar eclipse revealed that we inhabit a round world, a globe. More recently, comparisons of the sunlit and Earthlit parts of the Moon have been used to determine changes in the Earth's brightness as a way of monitoring possible effects in cloud coverage which may be related to global warming. Shadows were used by the Greek mathematician Eratosthenes to work out the first estimate of the circumference of the Earth, by Galileo to measure the heights of the lunar mountains and by eighteenth century astronomers to determine the scale of the Solar System itself. Some of the rarest and most wonderful shadows of all are those cast onto Earth by the lovely "Evening Star" Venus as it goes between the Earth and the Sun. These majestic transits of Venus occur at most two in a century; after the 2012 transit, there is not a chance to observe this phenomenon until 2117, while the more common sweep of a total solar eclipse creates one of the most dramatic and awe-inspiring events of nature. Though it may have once been a source of consternation or dread, solar eclipses now lead thousands of amateur astronomers and "eclipse-chasers" to travel the globe in order to experience the dramatic view under "totality." These phenomena are among the most spectacular available to observers and are given their full due in Westfall and Sheehan's comprehensive study.

The Exoplanet Handbook

by Michael Perryman

(2018b) also report the discovery of a single comet-shaped transit in KIC–
11084727 with similar transit and host star ... 6.24 Transit and eclipse
spectroscopy This section covers the basic principles of transit and eclipse
spectroscopy, setting ...

The Exoplanet Handbook

Author: Michael Perryman

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

ISBN: 1108419771

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A complete and in-depth review of exoplanet research, covering the discovery methods, physics and theoretical background.

The Encyclopaedia Britannica

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1759 , Comet of 1682 and 1759. 19. 1761 and 1762 , we find several papers of
Lalande ; two on the 1760 , Sun's Diameter . 20. Perturbation of Venus by the
Earth . transit of Venus ; 166. One on Norwood's Measurement of the 21. Eclipse
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Orr s Circle of the Sciences

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589 Completing transit , 110 . Computation for Polaris ... Constellations , their
antiquity , 294 , Corona and flames during a solar eclipse , 356 . Cosmical rising ,
206 . ... D Darkness during a solar eclipse , 355 , D'Arrest's comet , 307 . Data for
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The Encyclopaedia Britannica

by Thomas Stewart Traill

1759 , Comet of 1682 and 1759. 19 . 1761 and 1762 , we find several papers of
Lalande ; two on tho 1760 , Sun's Diameter . 20. Perturbation of Venus by the
Earth . transit of Venus ; 166. One on Norwood's Measurement of the 21. Eclipse
of ...

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The Handbook of Jamaica for

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A partial eclipse of the moon early on Tuesday morning October 16th , visible in
Jamaica . The first contact of the ... 9 Eclipses Jamaica Government Railway 161
The Great Comet Government Savings Bank 164 The Transit of Venus
Immigration.

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Memoirs of the Royal Astronomical Society

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215 196 , 219 Ellery , observations of Comet 1.1865 Equatoreal mounting ,
description of an Eye - piece , solar , description ... 197 Airy , G. B. , comparison of
the transit - instrument in its ordinary or reversible form with the transit -
instrument its non ... 241 note on & Herculis 275 Freeman , observations of lunar
eclipse of April 11 , 1865 273 79 , 83 9 I 22 ) Gasparis , De , discovery of Minor
Planet Beatrix .

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116122 IOI Brilliant Meteor , 30 , 44 , 67 , 243 Darby , on Double Stars , " Brothers
, on Transit Observations , Davidson , on a ... Comets , 140 , 160 , 184 EARLY
ASTRONOMICAL HISTORY , Harvest Moon , 247 17 Binary Stars , 105 Eclipse ...

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Natural History of the Inanimate Creation

by David Thomas Ansted

Nature of Comets Halley's Comet Encke's Comet . 108 110 114 Faye's ... Lunar
Eclipses 138 Partial Eclipses 139 Effects of the Atmosphere 142 Prediction ,
Duration , and Magnitude of Eclipses . 143 Graphical Construction of Eclipses
146 Eclipses of the Sun. .. 151 Method of ... Circle , Theodolite , Alti . tude and
Azimuth Instrument , Mi. crometer , Equatorial 186 , 187 Transit Instrument . 189
—198 Error ...

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Elements and Ephemeris of Comet I. 1858. MM . ... Jacob . Suggestions
respecting the Annular Eclipse of Observations of Donati's Comet . ... On the
Polar Distances of the Greenwich Transit On the Distribution of the Solar Spots in
Latitude .

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1861 , observations and elements of , Mr. Bond Comet I. 1862 , discovery and
elements . ... the observations made between 1819'10 and 1860'08 158 Bulard ,
M. , observations of transit of Mercury , solar eclipse , and occultation of Venus
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