From John Pond   [1822-6-20 or earlie

Summary

Thanks for sending your catalogues. Requests duplicates. Has made annotations indicating the 'quantity which Mr. [F. W.] Bessel's Instrument places the stars to the south of my determinations.' Cannot yet explain discrepancy. Unable to determine a parallactic shift for Alpha Lyrae, Alpha Aquila, or Gamma Draconis.

Letter details

Record number

Herschel1998

From

John Pond

To

Sir John Herschel

Date

[1822-6-20 or earlie

Sent from

n.p.

Source of text

RS:HS 14.31

Physical description

ALS 3pp

Additional information

Contributor

John Herschel Project[View Ɛpsilon collection]

• John Pond
• Sir John Herschel