[Collection of papers by John Pond]
Published: 1806
Language: eng
Subjects: Stars; Observations; Parallax; Astronomical instruments
Other titles: Fixed stars
Table of contents: title: On the declinations of some of the principal fixed stars : with a description of an astronomical circle and some remarks on the construction of circular instruments --; title: Observation of the summer solstice, 1812, at the Royal Observatory : read November 12, 1812 --; title: A catalogue of North Polar distances of some of the principal fixed stars : read December 17, 1812 --; title: On the parallax of the fixed stars : read February 20, 1817 --; title: On the parallax of [alpha] Lyræ : read November 14, 1822 --; title: On certain changes which appear to have taken place in the positions of some of the principal fixed stars : read June 19, 1823 --; title: Explantion of the method of observing with the two Mural Circles, as practised at present at the Royal Observatory of Greenwich : read May 12, 1826 --; title: On the twenty-five feet Zenith Telescope lately erected at the Royal Observatory.