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RefNoHS/14/32
LevelItem
TitleLetter, from John Pond to Sir John Herschel, dated at Royal Observatory
CreatorJohn Pond
Date20 June 1822
DescriptionAutograph letter signed by sender. Thanks John Frederick William Herschel for extract from a letter from [J. J.] Littrow. Discusses in detail positional determinations of various stars he has made, attempting to determine whether errors of either observations or computation have entered into his results. Reports that in general there is substantial agreement between determinations made by John Pond and those made by John Brinkley at Ireland's Royal Observatory. Mentions solar observations at Greenwich.
LanguageEnglish
Extent7pp
FormatManuscript
Place originThe Royal Observatory, Greenwich
Origin coordinates51.47783, -0.00139
AccessStatusOpen
URLDescriptionAlso available on Epsilon
URLhttps://epsilon.ac.uk/view/herschel/letters/Herschel1999
Fellows associated with this archive
CodePersonNameDates
NA3168Pond; John (1767 - 1836)1767 - 1836
NA8238Herschel; Sir; John Frederick William (1792 - 1871); astronomer1792 - 1871
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