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O's Clock D's D's
('s h's 24's
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longit. latit. declin long. long. long. long. long.

D longitude. deci naft.

1 8 18 29 8 n 28 0

12345

9 16 36 8

10 14 46 7

12 11 10 7

60

21511 4n 43 10 a 202516287291845 9N 51311238 1414 3525 2128 3019 23 10 17 12 43

2127 37 14

DECEMBER 1806.

J's 's 8's h's 24's

f's 8's latit. latit. latit. declin. declin. declin. declin declin.}

longitude declin. aft.

17840 721 s 46 10
9 41 121
10 41 56 22

2

55 10

longit.

3922 58 8 4922 50 7 211 5922 41 7 2423 5120 11

('s ('s h's 24's J's Q's. f's latit. declin. long. longit. longit. longit. longit.

501933 4 s 3610n 36 5m36 10145 9 0 27 32945
27 31148 5 65 22 5
45 10 58 9 25 3 19 0150

611

5111

2m 13 0 n33 2 s 1611 s 1623 s 11 10 a 1520 s
2 21 0 19 1
0 4 0
1

425 s 44

3311 28/23 59

26'21

36 24 56

40 22

4623 27

5923

3221 37

4/10

1515

55 4

43 10

37 6

ASTRONOMICAL OBSERVATIONS FOR AUGUST.

AUGUST the 8th month of the year, containing 31

days. In the ancient Roman calendar this was called Sextilis, as being the sixth month from March, with which the year began; but changed to its present name by the Emperor Augustus, calling it after his own name on account of his having obtained many victories and honours in that month.

The Ecliptic, in Astronomy, is a great circle of the sphere conceived through the middle of the Zodiac; it is sometimes called the via solis, or the sun's path, being the track which he appears to describe among the fixed stars; though more properly it is the apparent path of the earth, as viewed from the sun, and thence called the heliocentric circle of the earth. It is called the ecliptic, because all the eclipses of the sun or moon happen when the moon crosses it, or is nearly in one of those two parts of her orbit where it crosses the ecliptic, which points are called the moon's nodes.

Upon the ecliptic are marked and counted the 12 celestial signs, Aries, Taurus, Gemini, &c.; and upon it is counted the longitude of the planets and stars, it is placed obliquely with respect to the equator, which it cuts in two opposite points, viz. the beginning of Aries and Libra, which are directly opposite to each other, and called the equinoxes, making the one half of the ecliptic No. VIII. FF