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Bessel's formula

(1) The formula which relates the time (sidereal) Ttrue of passage of a star through the astronomical meridian to the observed time Tobs of passage through the telescope's vertical cross hair, to the declination δ of the star and to the constants m, n and c which are functions of instrumental errors a and b, as follows:

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