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Journal of the British Astronomical Association. Vol.1 No.6

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  • 60BAA Journal Vol. 1 No. 6 - MARCH, 1891
  • 100EPHEMERIS FOR PHYSICAL OBSERVATIONS OF JUPITER, 1891. A. Marth.
  • 62Council
  • 64REPORT OF THE MEETING OF THE ASSOCIATION HELD MARCH 25, 1891
  • 66Nebula surrounding zeta Orionis
  • 67REPORTS OF THE OBSERVING SECTIONS
  • 67Coloured star section
  • 70Papers communicated to the Association.
  • 70The Determination of Star Colours.
  • 72On Observing Star Colours.
  • 73The Determination of Star Colours. By B. J. HOPKINS
  • 74The Lunar Walled-plain Ptolemaus
  • 83The Canals of Mars.
  • 85Two new red stars and a possibly variable star
  • 100ERRATA IN MR. TURNER'S NOTE ON THE RECENT DETERMINA­TION OF THE LONGITUDE OF PARIS.
  • 87The Companion of Sirius.
  • 88The Solar Star-Cluster.
  • 90Solar Activity in 1890.
  • 95Selenographic Studies.
  • 98Astronomical Publications.
  • 98Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
  • 98NOTES ON THE PREPARATIONS FOR THE WORK OF THE ASTROPHOTOGRAPHY CHART AT THE ROYAL OBSERVATORY, GREENWICH.
  • 98VARIATIONS OF LATITUDE DEDUCED FROM THE OBSERVATIONS OF Polaris MADE AT GREENWICH, 1851-89. Prof. H. G. van de Saude Bakhuyzen.
  • 98COMPARISON OF THE STAR-PLACES OF THE GREENWICH TEN-YEAR CATALOGUE WITH THOSE OF THE SECOND MELBOURNE GENERAL CATALOGUE, AND WITH THOSE OF THE CAPE CATALOGUE FOR 1880. A. M. W. Downing.
  • 100OBSERVATIONS OF THE PLANET VICTORIA AND COMPARISON STARS, MADE WITH THE TRANSIT CIRCLE OF THE RAD-CLIFFE OBSERVATORY, OXFORD, DURING THE OPPOSITION OF 1889. Communicated by E. J. Stone.
  • 100MEAN EIGHT ASCENSIONS AND NORTH POLAR DISTANCES OF COMPARISON STARS FOR THE PLANETS VICTORIA AND SAPPHO, OBSERVED WITH THE CAMBRIDGE TRANSIT CIRCLE. Communicated by Prof. J. C. Adams.
  • 100OBSERVATIONS UF THE SATELLITES OF SATURN, OF OCCULTA­TIONS OF STARS BY THE MOON, AND OF PHENOMENA OF JUPITER'S SATELLITES, MADE AT MR. E. CROSSLEY'S OBSERVATORY, BERMERSIDE, HALIFAX. J. Gledhill
  • 109THE KENWOOD PHYSICAL OBSERVATORY. George Hale
  • 60Contents.
  • 102WHAT I CAN SEE THROUGH MY THREE-INCH. E. M. Antoniadi.
  • 100NOTES ON VISITS TO SOME AMERICAN OBSERVATORIES. H. F. Newall.
  • 101A VISIT TO THE OBSERVATORY AT WINDSOR, N.S.W. R. T. A. Innes.
  • 101SELENOGRAPHICAL NOTES. Thos. Gwyn Elger.
  • 102Journal of the Liverpool Astronomical Society
  • 102AIRLESS AND WATERLESS CONDITION OF THE MOON. Rev. Fred. F. Grensted.
  • 102COLOURED STAR SECTION III. Rev. W. R. Waugh.
  • 102NEPTUNE'S PATH. Rev. H. P. Slade
  • 102FIRST AURORA, Rev. S. J. Johnson.
  • 102COMETS AND METEOR STREAMS. W. Lynn
  • 102THE CONSTITUTION OF MATTER. J. E. Gore
  • 102REMARKABLE SUN-SPOTS. J. Webb
  • 100The Observatory
  • 103KNowledge
  • 102THE SIZE OF THE PLANE MIRROR IN NEWTONIAN TELESCOPES. T. Westlake.
  • 103Nature
  • 105English Mechanic
  • 105THE PERSEID RADIANT. David Booth.
  • 105SELENOGRAPHICAL : REGION S.E. of GUERICKE. T. S. Sheldon.
  • 106The Siderial Messenger
  • 108Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific
  • 108OBSERVATIONS AND DRAWINGS OF SATURN, 1879-1889. Edward S. Holden.
  • 109INDEX MAP OF THE MOON. C. A. Young
  • 109THE OBSERVATORY OF SWARTHMORE COLLEGE. Miss Susan J. Cunningham.
  • 109AN ACCOUNT OF AN EXPERIMENT MADE TO DETERMINE WHETHER GRAVITATION FORCE VARIES WITH TEMPERATURE. A. E. Kennell
  • 109CORONAL EXTENSION. C. M. Charropin, S.J.
  • 86Sun-Glows.
  • 109THE LAW OF THE SOLAR CORONA. Frank H. Bigelow
  • 115ON THE VARIATIONS OBSERVED IN THE LATITUDE OF A SINGLE PLACE. A. Gaillot
  • 118THE METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE AT BERLIN AND ITS STATIONS AT POTSDAM. Ernst Wagner.
  • 110PREDICTIONS RELATING TO THE ANNULAR ECLIPSE OF THE SUN, JUNE 6, 1891.
  • 111The Astronomical Journal
  • 112Bulletin Astronomique.
  • 112ON THE FLEXURE OF MICROMETER THREADS. M. Hamy and F. Bonnet.
  • 112HELIOCENTRIC CO-ORDINATES OF JUPITER
  • 112 L'Astronomie
  • 112APPARENT DISAPPEARANCE OF THE RINGS OF SATURN. C. Flammarion.
  • 114Comptes Rendus de l'Académie des Sciences
  • 114ON THE MEASURE OF THE 52ND PARALLEL IN EUROPE. M. Vénukoff
  • 114DETERMINATION OF THE CONSTANT OF ABERRATION. MM. Loewy and Puiseaux.
  • 115THIRD RE-UNION OF THE PERMANENT INTERNATIONAL COMMITTEE FOR THE PHOTOGRAPHIC CONSTRUCTION OF THE CHART OF THE HEAVENS. Adm. Mouchez
  • 115NEW NEBULAE DISCOVERED AT THE PARIS OBSERVATORY. G. Bigourdan.
  • 118ON THE SPECTRUM OF THE ZODIACAL LIGHT.
  • 115THE LAW ACCORDING TO WHICH THE SUM OF THE DISTANCES OF THE MOON FROM ANY TWO STARS VARIES AS A FUNCTION OF THE TIME. L. Cruts
  • 115NEW NEBULAE DISCOVERED AT THE PARIS OBSERVATORY. G. Bigourdan.
  • 115Report on a Memoir by M. de Sparre on the FEUCAULT PENDULUM. M. Resal
  • 116Astronomische Nachrichten
  • 117Sirius
  • 117THE SPECTRO-PHOTOGRAPHIC TELESCOPE OF THE POTSDAM OBSERVATORY.
  • 117RESEARCHES ON IMPACTS AND DIVISIONS OF PLANETARY MASSES
  • 117NEW RESEARCHES ON THE ORBITS OF METEORS.
  • 117THE NEBULA IN THE PLEIADES.
  • 117ASTRONOMICAL OBSERVATORIES.
  • 118Himmel und Erde.
  • 118THE DETERMINATION OF LONGITUDE AND LATITUDE AT SEA. Rottok, Berlin.
  • 110NOTICES FROM THE LICK OBSERVATORY. Members of the staff
  • 110SOME PHYSICAL PHENOMENA INVOLVED IN THE MECHANICAL THEORY OF THE CORONA. J. M. Schaeberle.
  • 123Charts of the Constellations, from the North Pole to between 35 and 40 degrees of South Declination. By Arthur Cottam,
  • 119CORRESPONDENCE
  • 119Damp and the Telescope
  • 119Errata
  • 120A Practical Hint
  • 120Rime on mirrors
  • 121Naked Eye Astronomy.
  • 121The next Total Solar Eclipse in England.
  • 121Inquiries.
  • 122NeW Books and Memoirs.
  • 122Results of Observations with the Meridian Photometer at Harvard Observatory.
  • 123Annales de l'Observatoire de Paris. Mémoires, Tome XIX.
  • 118ON THE SIMILARITY OF THE SURFACES OF THE EARTH AND THE OTHER PLANETS.
  • 124The Summary of a Meteorological Journal kept by C. Leeson Prince
  • 124Catalogue of the Crawford Library of the Royal Observatory, Edinburgh.
  • 125Notes.
  • 125THE PARIS CONGRESS.—
  • 127Discobery of a new comet
  • 127Recent deaths
  • 127New variable star
  • 128COMET MEDAL OF THE ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY OF THE PACIFIC
  • 128GRESHAM LECTURES ON ASTRONOMY.
  • 129Notices of the Association.
  • 131New members elected 1891 March 25
  • 129Lunar Section.
  • 130Candidates for election
  • 131Errata
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