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THE PROPER MOTION OF THE SUN.—In the September number of the Bulletin Astronomique M. Tisserand gives an interesting account of a method of determining the proper motion of the sun from stellar proper motions. Denoting by m and m' the values of the annual proper motions of the stars, c space described by the sum in one year, this space being measured with the same unit as the distance (p) of the sun, and A and D the Right Ascension and Declination of the apex of the sun's way, the formulæ for reduction become
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Our Astronomical Column. Nature 52, 487 (1895). https://doi.org/10.1038/052487a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/052487a0