Includes separately issued Tables to facilitate the reduction of places of the fixed stars, published Washington, 1869.

Excerpt from The American Ephemeris and Nautical Almanac, 1870 In the volume for 1865 the star ephemeris was greatly enlarged; new places of the stars adopted; the form for moon culminations and moon-culminating stars changed so that less space was required; mean solar time, instead of sidereal time, used in the dates of the ephemeris for the meridian of Washington; bessnl's notation in the formulae for star-reductions substituted for baily's. Several other changes of less importance were made. In the volume for 1869 some slight changes were made in the epheme rides of Venus and Mars, and in the arrangement of the stars; and the explanations of the arrangement and use of the tables were revised so as to adapt them to the wants of operators at sea or in the field. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.