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SCHOOL OF PRACTICAL ASTRONOMY.
Prof. Stone.
Besides the general fundamental principles of Spherical and Practical
Astronomy and Celestial Mechanics, instruction in this School embraces
the theory of meridian and equatorial instruments, and the instruments
subsidiary thereto, the methods of determining time, latitude and longitude,
the methods of determining right ascensions and declinations, the
formation of star catalogues, the use and construction of ephemerides,
the computation of elliptic and parabolic orbits and of special perturbations,
together with the auxiliary subjects of interpolation, mechanical
quadrature, and the method of least squares.
Throughout the course systematic training is given in numerical computation,
and in the use of astronomical instruments, and students are
expected to engage in such original work as their time and attainments
will permit.
Only in exceptional cases will students be able to complete the course
in less than two years.
Text-books:—Chauvenet's Spherical and Practical Astronomy; Oppolzer's Lehrbuch
zur Bahnbestimmung; Gauss's Theoria Motus.
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