| RefNo | EC/1900/12 |
| Previous numbers | Cert XII, 113 |
| Level | Item |
| Title | Rambaut, Arthur Alcock: certificate of election to the Royal Society |
| Citation | Radcliffe Observer. Late Royal Astronomer of Ireland. Late Andrews Professor of Astronomy in the University of Dublin. Author of the following researches in Astronomy and Physics: - 'Catalogue of the Mean Places of 1,012 Southern Stars' (Astronomical Observations and Researches at Dunsink part vi); 'Catalogue of the Mean Places of 717 Stars' (Part vii, ibid); 'On the Determination of Double Star Orbits from SpectroscopicObservations of the Velocity in the Line of Sight' (Monthly Notices, Roy Astron Soc, vol li, No 5); 'To Adjust the Polar Axis of an Equatorial Telescope for Photographic Purposes' (ibid, vol liv, No 2); 'On the Inequality in the Apparent Diurnal Movement of Stars due to Refraction, and a Method of Allowing for it in Astronomical Photography' (ibid, vol lvii, No 2); 'On a Geometrical Method of Finding the most Probable Apparent Orbit of a Double Star' (Proc Roy Dubl Soc, vol vii, part 2); 'On the Distortion of Photographic Star Images due to Refraction' (ibid, vol viii, part 2); 'On the Rotation Period of the 'Garnet' Spot on Jupiter' (ibid, vol viii, part 5); 'On the Relative Positions of 223 Stars in the Cluster x Persei, as Determined Photographically' (in conjunction with Sir R Ball) (Trans Roy Irish Acad, vol xxx, part 4); 'On the Possibility of Determining the Distance of a Double Star by means of the Relative Velocity of the Components in the Line of Sight' (ibid, 2nd series, vol iv, No 6); 'The Absorption of Heatin the Solar Atmosphere' (in conjunction with W E Wilson) (ibid, 3rd series vol iii, No 4). |
| Proposers | Robert S Ball; W H M Christie; G Salmon; [S Haughton]; B Williamson; G F Fitzgerald; J Joly; W E Wilson; J E Reynolds; G Gabriel Stokes; Howard Grubb; A A Common; G H Darwin; A M W Downing; G J Stoney; G M Minchin |
| Extent | 1 sheet |
| AccessStatus | Open |
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Fellows associated with this archive
| Code | PersonName | Dates |
| NA2892 | Rambaut; Arthur Alcock (1859 - 1923) | 1859 - 1923 |