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NATAL OBSERVATORY.βThe superintendent of the Nata Observatory, in his report for the year 1890β91, tenders hi obligations to no less than seven ladies, without whose zealou assistance, he says, the greater part of the numerous astronomica computations, &c, would not have been carried out. Although lacking such aid as is consistent with the proper working of an Observatory, a great amount of very useful work has been accomplished. For instance, the entire mass of meridian observations of the moon made at Greenwich during the period 1851β1861 have been reduced and compared with the theoretical basis of Hansen's Lunar Tables, thus completing the whole number of lunar observations up to the year 1890. The work with the transit, magnetic transit, and equatorial have been continued as usual. For the determination of the latitude of the Observatory 1022 observations of thirty-five pairs of stars have been obtained. Owing to the close proximity of the equatorial and transit instruments, we are informed that it is impossible to use them both at the same time; this should be at once remedied, for the Observatory does not seem to be supplied with many surplus instruments.
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Our Astronomical Column. Nature 46, 362 (1892). https://doi.org/10.1038/046362a0
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