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1838 Excerpt: ...represent its motion, is denominated mean time. We
cannot immediately obtain mean time from observation; but, from an
observation of the true Sun, with the aid of the equation of time,
which is the angular distance in time between the mean and the true
Sun, we may readily deduce it. Suppose the true Sun to be observed
on the meridian of Greenwich, Jan. 1, 1842; it would then be
apparent noon at that meridian; the equation of time at this
instant apparent time"; hence it appears that the corresponding
mean time is 0h 3m 5 l, -02, or that the mean Sun had passed the
meridian-previously to the true Sun, and that at the instant of
observation the mean time clock or chronometer ought to indicate
this time. A mere inspection of the columns of the Ephemeris is, of
itself, sufficient to show that the quantities are continually
varying, and that some reduction is necessary where data are to be
obtained for any time differing from that for which the quantities
are registered. Take, for instance, the Suns Right Ascension on
Page II. of the month of January; on January I, it is 18h 46m
45'-08; on January 2, it is 18b 51m 9-85; in the course of 24 mean
hours it has therefore increased by 4m 24, -77-Ifj then, the Right
Ascension were required for any time between the Mean Noons of
January 1 and 2, as at 6h from Mean Noon of January 1, it would be
necessary to increase the Right Ascension on January 1, by the
proportional part of the daily increase due for the 6h, viz. by
one-fourth part, or lm 6 19. This would in all cases be required,
even under the meridian of Greenwich, for which the quantities have
been specially computed. Let a person be now supposed to be under a
meridian 15 West of Greenwich. The positions of the heavenly
bodies, as referred to the centre of the...
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