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THE SATELLITE OF NEPTUNE.—We here present in a tabular form the means of determining the approximate position and distance of the satellite of Neptune, with respect to the primary for any time during the months of September and October, or indeed by extending the epochs subjoined, for any time during, the present opposition. The argument is the distance of the satellite from the ascending node of the orbit upon the earth's equator, and u> = 0°, at these Greenwich mean times:—
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OUR ASTRONOMICAL COLUMN . Nature 18, 464–465 (1878). https://doi.org/10.1038/018464e0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/018464e0