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RGO Archives/RGO 6 contains:
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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
189 Catton's observations
190 Transit observations
191 Mural circle observations
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Papers of George Airy

Title Discussion of star places
Reference RGO 6/196
(former reference: B5/10)
Covering Dates 1847–1868
Extent and Medium 1 box
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Correspondence on the position and identity of stars, variable motions of stars, computations of star's positions, lists of stars and comparisons of stars and nebula. There are brief papers by G.P. Bond on a companion star to Sirius and a list of new nebulae and star clusters, 1847-1863, as observed at Harvard Observatory, U.S.A. There are also French circulars on nebulae, a list of stars observed on the Great Trigonometrical Survey of India, and French ephemerides of fundamental stars. The correspondents include C.P. Smyth, R. Grant, J.R. Hind, T.H. Safford, E.J. Stone, B.A. Gould, A.V. Auwers, E. Dunkin, A.R. Clarke, A.S. Herschel, J.F.W. Herschel, N.R. Pogson, J. Baxendell, W. Huggins, G.G. Stokes, W. Lassell and the Earl of Rosse.

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Herschel, Sir John Frederick William (1792-1871) Knight, astronomer
Stone, Edward James (1831-1897) astronomer
Auwers, Arthur Julius Georg Friedrich von (1838-1915) astronomer
Baxendell, Joseph (1815-1887) meteorologist and astronomer
Dunkin, Edwin (1821-1898) astronomer
Gould, Benjamin Apthorp (1824-1896) astronomer
Hind, John Russell (1823-1895) astronomer
Huggins, Sir William (1824-1910) Knight, astronomer
Lassell, William (1799-1880) astronomer
Parsons, William (1800-1867) 3rd Earl of Rosse, astronomer
Pogson, Norman Robert (1829-1891) astronomer
Smyth, Charles Piazzi (1819-1900) astronomer
Stokes, Sir George Gabriel (1819-1903) 1st Baronet, physicist
Bond, George Phillips (1825-1865) astronomer
Grant, Robert (1814-1892) astronomer
Clarke, Alexander Ross (1828-1914) Fellow of Royal Society
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