Schlagintweit, Hermann von; Schlagintweit, Adolf; Schlagintweit, Robert von: Results of a scientific mission to India and High Asia: undertaken between the years MDCCCLIV and MDCCCLVIII, by order of the court of directors of the hon. East India Company (Band 1): Astronomical determinations of latitudes and longitudes and magnetic observations: during a scientific mission to India and High Asia (Leipzig, 1861)

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Latitude and Time.
1856, March 14. Horizontal Circle. Vertical Circle.

Sun's Centre.

P.M.

h m

O / f) Oil!

1) 3 7 15 125 25 0 75 56 15

2) 3 10 52 129 5 0 75 44 30

3) 3 38 40 152 38 40 72 26 20

(586-5 millim. m ,' • ( 22• 2 C.

Barom. \ . , Temp, of Air I _ ,

( 23-091 inches. (72-0 Fahr.

Calculated by Method I., from Observations 1 and 3.

I. 3.

Refraction............ — 0 11 — 0 13 .

Parallax............. + 0 3 +0 3

Sum of Corr....... — 0 8 — 0 10

O l 11

1. h corr. — 75 56 7
3. h' corr. = 72 26 10

5' = — 2° 15' 0"

Latitude N.......................... 11° 29'-1

Time: Mean Noon (corr. for Equation of Time) . . . 3h 4m 25s

Control.

o /

Calculated Apparent Altitude (Obs. 2) 75 43-7
Observation 2 .............. 75 44-5

Calc—Obs................ — 0'8

Meridian.

Deduced from Observations of the Sun..... 122° 30'-6.

No. 42. Utatur, in the Karnatik.

Latitude North. Longitude East Green. Height.

11° 4' 40" 78° 51' 40" 280 feet.

A small place, 22 miles north of Trichinopalli, but well situated as an inter-
mediate magnetic station between Madras and the Mlgiris.

Magnetic Observations: 1856.

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