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=== Dissertation ===
{{Cquote| ''Find the true longitude of Mars for September 20, 1477 at 6:01:36 am Mean Time Toledo.
Decimal 1477.0 + 263 days, 6 hours, 1.6 minutes (1477.72). We draw from the table the Mean Motions IV and V
The usual dissertation for Berlin astronomy students at this time was an orbital determination for asteroid or comet. These were the sorts of problems on which Bauschinger was expert. The second most common was some study of the motion of the Moon and planets, or observations of the Sun. Forster supervised these. Alfred's assigned topic, supervised jointly by Bauschinger and Forster was quite different.
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