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DIAMETER OF JUPITER.—In continuation of his series of determinations of planetary diameters with the 26-inch refractor at Washington, Prof. T. J. J. See gives the reduced measures of Jupiter in Astronomische Nachrichten, Bd. 157, No. 3757.The observations were made during daylight, using the colour screen over the eye-piece for eliminating the secondary fringes, &c. For the final evaluation of the diameter sixty-eight measures are employed, extending over the period 1901 September 6–October 1; from these he gives:—
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Our Astronomical Column . Nature 65, 258 (1902). https://doi.org/10.1038/065258a0
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