ASTRONOMICAL.
GIIItOXOMETEH BATING NOTICE. nnntnr Observatory. Wellington.—The position nf the llcctor Observatory is aa Latitude. Aides. 17min. 3.765ec. South. U hours 39min. 4.275ee. East of i Greenwich. Height, above 1900 mean ecu level. 418 feet. Chronometer lifting Notice.—At 1 p.m. to-day a {jalvnnouicter for rating chronometer* «;ili bo sent from Hie Observatory to the Public Telegraph Office and to the Dominion Museum. The noedlo will move at 1 p.m. exactly of New 2caland standard mean time, when ~a chronometer set to Greenwich mean timo should i rhow 15 hotiiM 3Dmiu. Any difference will be the error of tlm chronometer on Green-, wmh mean time. At. 9 p.m. correct time will nlso bo sipnulled from the Observatory by menus of nlectrii'. lis'his. A lipht will be switched on nt about- P. 45 p.m.. a red orio nt. abaut 8.5! i p.m., and n white one nt 8.09 p.m., and all lights will be s\vitrhed o!V ;it 9 p.m. owwtly of Now Zealand standard mo--in time. Tlio preparatory £.witf'liiii;* <>n of the liphtu mubt bo ::oiisidcred nv only approximately correct, and aiuM m.t hi> for ratihu ehronoliif!i'j's. The eorrrrl. time for nitiiiK will lie jciven ljy nil the pimul:l'l i) 11.111. ('. K. ADA MS, (l.ivfNiiiic'nl Astre mcr. Wrllii!!.'hiii, April 21, 1913. II il■ ik ureal pleasure to (lidnrre Vainer'.-. ('ov.-cli; w,> Ii n vi' handled I hem in t.Ho iiatt.witU groat succcss.—Wellington lJraucrs,—Advt.
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Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1729, 21 April 1913, Page 9
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231ASTRONOMICAL. Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1729, 21 April 1913, Page 9
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