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SATELLITES OF URANUS.—There are many amateurs in this country who possess instruments quite competent to show the two larger or exterior satellites of the planet Uranus. With the view to facilitate the identification of these objects, their angles of position and distances from the centre of Uranus are given below for 14h. Greenwich mean time for the last ten days of the present year, with the intention of continuing them while the planet is most favourably placed for observation as regards position and distance from the moon's place. They are deduced from the very convenient tables appended by Prof. Newcomb to his discussion of the observations of the satellites with the 26 inch equatorial at Washington, forming Appendix I. to the Washington Observations for 1873:—
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Our Astronomical Column . Nature 13, 87–88 (1875). https://doi.org/10.1038/013087d0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/013087d0