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THE SOLAR PARALLAX FROM PHOTOGRAPHS OF THE LAST TRANSIT OF VENUS.—A preliminary value of the solar parallax, as obtained from the measurement of the photographs of the sun taken at the different American stations during the transit of Venus, of December 1882, has been recently published. This value is based upon the measured distances of the centres of the sun and of Venus on 1475 photographs, taken at ten stations, six in the United States, two in South America, and the remaining two at Wellington, South Africa, and Auckland, New Zealand. It compares as follows with the values deduced from the American and French photographs respectively of the transit of 1874:—
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Our Astronomical Column . Nature 38, 600–601 (1888). https://doi.org/10.1038/038600a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/038600a0