ASTRONOMICAL
HECTOR OBSERVATORY, WELLINGTON. Latitude 41dcg ITmin 3.7Cseo south. Longitude Hhr 3'Jmin 4.27»e0 east ot Greenwich, lleighi above 19U9 mean sea level, 418 feet. CHRONOMETER RATING NOTICE. At 1 p.m. to-day a galvanometer signal for rating chronometers will be sout from the Observatory to tho Public ielcgrapa Office, and to the Dominion Museum. The needle will move at 1 p.m. exactly of New Zealand standard mean time, when a chronometer set’ to Greenwicn mean time should show 13hr SOimn. Any difference will be the error of the enrooometer on Greenwich mean time. At 9 p.m. correct time will also be signalled from tho Observatory by means ot e)eoirio lights. A green light will be switched on at about 8.15 p.m., a red one at about 8.55 p.m., and a white one at about 8.59 p.m., and all lights will be ewwchail off at 9 p.m. exactly of New Zealand standard mean time. The preparatory swi tolling on of the lights Must be sidered as only approximately correct, and must not be used for rating chronometers. The correct time for rating will be given by switching off the lights simultaneously at 9 p.m. C. E. ADAMS, Government Astronomer. Wednesday, February stb, 1913.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XXXVII, Issue 8346, 5 February 1913, Page 4
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201ASTRONOMICAL New Zealand Times, Volume XXXVII, Issue 8346, 5 February 1913, Page 4
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