Janus: Papers of George Airy

RGO Archives/RGO 6 contains:
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178	Correspondence on the Edinburgh Equatorial
179	Papers on instruments
180	Personal equation results
181	Correspondence on terrestrial longitude
182	Papers on the longitude of Valentia
183	Papers on the longitude of Valentia
184	Papers on the longitude of Valentia
185	Papers on the longitude of Valentia
186	Papers on the longitude of Kingstown and Valentia
187	Papers on the longitude of Valentia
188	Papers on the longitude of Valentia
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Papers of George Airy

Title	Papers on the longitude of Valentia
Reference	RGO 6/183 (former reference: C2/2031)
Covering Dates	1844
Extent and Medium	1 box

Content and context

Observations of stars at Kingstown (Dún Laoghaire), Ireland, in conjunction with chronometer readings to find the longitude of Valentia (Valencia). There are also journals of the project by R. Sheepshanks and J.R. Hind, star catalogues for Kingstown, intervals of transit wires and corrections for collimation of the transit telescope. The chronometers used are numbers 1839, 2354 and 2388.

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Indexed

Index Terms

Dún Laoghaire

Longitude

Valencia Island

Sheepshanks, Richard (1794-1855) astronomer

Hind, John Russell (1823-1895) astronomer

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