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RGO Archives/RGO 126/7 contains:
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11 The Altazimuth Department's annotated working copy of P.H. Cowell's ''Refraction Tables arranged for use at Royal Observatory, Greenwich'' (HMSO, Edinburgh 1899); together with Appendix 1 to the 1898 edition
12 ''Table of Level and Azimuth Factors for every 10'' from 0° 10' to 4° and every 1' from 4° to 5°''
13 File entitled ''Mr Cullen's papers on R-D''
14 Notebook containing tables of ''Flexure''
15-16 ''Determination of Personal Equations with the Hand Driven Travelling Wire Micrometer''
17 R[efelxion?] and D[irect?] observations made with the horizontal wire; together with a note about the continued use of the wire
18 File entitled ''Airy Transit Circle; Recording or Z.D. Micrometer drum''
19 Items annotated ''From the miscellaneous papers box First (and Second) Greenwich Catalogue 1925''
20-21 Draft ledger entitled ''Second Greenwich Catalogue for 1925 (1922 to 1930): Greenwich Clock Stars, 12h and 6h groups'' and associated charts
22 ''Airy Transit-Circle: Working Catalogue of Clock Starts and Azimuth Stars: Epoch 1953.0''
23 Working papers in a file entitled ''First Greenwich Catalogue for 1950 (1931 to 1940): Greenwich Clock Stars, 12h and 6h groups''
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Airy's Transit Circle: observation and reduction ledgers and associated papers

Title Items annotated ''From the miscellaneous papers box First (and Second) Greenwich Catalogue 1925''
Reference RGO 126/7/19
Covering Dates 1921–1930
Extent and Medium 6 files; paper
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These files comprise working papers for star catalogues primarily relating to comparisons of sets of data and observation and equipment errors. They include, for example, comparisons of transit circle declination and latitude variation observations made with the Cooke floating telescope.

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