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THE SOLAR ECLIPSE OF 1806, DECEMBER 10.—When Rümker was on the point of leaving England to undertake the direction of the observatory erected by Sir Thomas Brisbane at Paramatta, N.S.W., he came into possession of a letter addressed to Maskelyne by Admiral Bligh, Governor of the colony, containing observations of a solar eclipse on December 10, 1806, which was described as almost total; the observations were made at Government House, Sydney Cove, with a three-feet achromatic and two chronometers by Arnold; Rumker communicated the Admiral's letter to Zach, who published it in vol. v. of his “Correspondance Astronomique,” with the places of the sun and moon from Delambre and Burckhardt, and the longitude of Sydney Cove, which he had deduced from Bligh's observa tions. Employing Burckhardt's Lunar Tables and the last Solar Tables of Carlini the elements of this eclipse will be found to be approximately as follows:—
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Our Astronomical Column . Nature 29, 415 (1884). https://doi.org/10.1038/029415a0
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