Excerpt from The American Ephemeris and Nautical Almanac: For the Year 1917 Part II, Ephemeris for the Meridian of Washington, which gives ephemerides of 825 stars, Sun, Moon, and major planets, for transit over the meridian of the Naval Observatory, Washington, which passes midway between the West and East Transit Circles of the Observatory. The mean places of the fixed stars and the data for their reduction are also included in Part II. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.