Glad that JH approves introducing Julian dates. Notes their use in American lunar tables. Positions of three new nebulae.
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The Sir John Herschel Collection
The preparation of the print Calendar of the Correspondence of Sir John Herschel (Michael J. Crowe ed., David R. Dyck and James J. Kevin assoc. eds, Cambridge, England: Cambridge Univ. Press, 1998, viii + 828 pp) which was funded by the National Science Foundation, took ten years. It was accomplished by a team of seventeen professors, visiting scholars, graduate students, advanced undergraduates, and staff working at the University of Notre Dame.
The first online version of Calendar was created in 2009 by Dr Marvin Bolt and Steven Lucy, working at the Webster Institute of the Adler Planetarium, and it is that data that has now been reformatted for incorporation into Ɛpsilon.
Further information about Herschel, his correspondence, and the editorial method is available online here: http://historydb.adlerplanetarium.org/herschel/?p=intro
No texts of Herschel’s letters are currently available through Ɛpsilon.
Glad that JH approves introducing Julian dates. Notes their use in American lunar tables. Positions of three new nebulae.
[Jean] Chacornac found nebula in Coma Berenices that JH thought had disappeared. It is highly variable. Notes on nebulae of variable magnitude.
Positions of new comet, calculated from 'Florence observations.'
Compares positions for variable nebula in Taurus reported by several astronomers. Plans to incorporate JH's suggestion regarding Julian calendar into more convenient table of dates.
E. W. L. Tempel's 1860 discovery of nebula near Merope.
Computation of Alpha Centauri's angle and distance, derived with JH's 'graphical method.' Compares this with results by other astronomers.