Contributions to astronomy and geodesy, forming part of vol. xx of the Memoirs of the Royal astronomical society.
By: By Thomas Maclear ... Printed at the expense of the Board of admiralty.
Contributors: Great Britain. Admiralty.
Publisher: Printed by G. Barclay
Published: 1851
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 114
Subjects: Royal Observatory, Cape of Good Hope.; Stars -- Observations.; Comets -- 1843.; Parallax -- Stars.; Mars (Planet) -- Opposition, 1849-1850.
Table of contents: title: I. Report to the lords commissioners of the Admiralty, July 23, 1850 [on the Royal observatory, Cape of Good Hope]; title: II. Particulars relating to the mounting of two equatoreal instruments at the Royal observatory, Cape of Good Hope, in the years 1847 and 1849.; title: III. Comparison of the southern stars of the British association catalogue with the heavens, for the detection of errors, with the method of conducting the examination.; title: IV. Observations of the comet of 1843, made at the Cape of Good Hope, re-examined and reduced.; title: V. Determination of the parallax of a¹ and a² Centauri, from observations made at the Royal observatory, Cape of Good Hope, in the years 1842-3-4 and 1848.; title: VI. Opposition of Mars, 1849-50, at the Cape of Good Hope.