From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Robert Main
Date:
[24 July 1844]
Source of text:
RGO 6.675.357
Summary:
Asks RM to forward letter [see JH's 1844-7-22] immediately to G. B. Airy.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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Asks RM to forward letter [see JH's 1844-7-22] immediately to G. B. Airy.
Thanks for the receipt of the Radcliffe catalogue of stars, but wishes observations had been equatorial rather than circumpolar.
Suggests an observational program for RM's newly purchased transit circle [see RM's 1861-10-21].
Thanks RM for the double star observations he has sent.
Sends RM a copy of Angelo Secchi's double star observations pointing to a very large number of calculation errors.
Seems to JH to be some systematic error in some of RM's observations; JH includes examples.
Thanks RM for his offer [see RM's 1869-1-26]; wishes astronomers would develop an accepted system of indicating the quality of observations.