Book contents
- Frontmatter
- PREFACE
- SUPPLEMENT
- Contents
- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
- PRINCIPAL AUTHORITIES
- Errata
- A Handbook of Descriptive and Practical Astronomy
- BOOK I A SKETCH OF THE SOLAR SYSTEM
- BOOK II ECLIPSES AND THEIR ASSOCIATED PHENOMENA
- BOOK X METEORIC ASTRONOMY
- APPENDICES
- APPENDIX I The Nomenclature of the Minor Planets
- APPENDIX II A Catalogue of Eclipses
- APPENDIX III A Catalogue of all the Comets whose Orbits have hitherto been computed
- APPENDIX IV A Catalogue of Comets Recorded, but not with sufficient Accuracy to enable their Orbits to be calculated
- APPENDIX V A Catalogue of Stars, Clusters, and Nebulæ which can be observed with greater or less facility in small Telescopes
- APPENDIX VI A Catalogue of Variable Stars
- APPENDIX VII Star Catalogues
- APPENDIX VIII List of Observatories
- INDEX TO SUBJECTS
- INDEX TO NAMES
- Plate section
APPENDIX VIII - List of Observatories
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 July 2011
- Frontmatter
- PREFACE
- SUPPLEMENT
- Contents
- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
- PRINCIPAL AUTHORITIES
- Errata
- A Handbook of Descriptive and Practical Astronomy
- BOOK I A SKETCH OF THE SOLAR SYSTEM
- BOOK II ECLIPSES AND THEIR ASSOCIATED PHENOMENA
- BOOK X METEORIC ASTRONOMY
- APPENDICES
- APPENDIX I The Nomenclature of the Minor Planets
- APPENDIX II A Catalogue of Eclipses
- APPENDIX III A Catalogue of all the Comets whose Orbits have hitherto been computed
- APPENDIX IV A Catalogue of Comets Recorded, but not with sufficient Accuracy to enable their Orbits to be calculated
- APPENDIX V A Catalogue of Stars, Clusters, and Nebulæ which can be observed with greater or less facility in small Telescopes
- APPENDIX VI A Catalogue of Variable Stars
- APPENDIX VII Star Catalogues
- APPENDIX VIII List of Observatories
- INDEX TO SUBJECTS
- INDEX TO NAMES
- Plate section
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- A Handbook of Descriptive and Practical Astronomy , pp. 500 - 504Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2010First published in: 1861