The article presents an analysis of astronomical observations that Jan Śniadecki (1756-1830) carried out in Krakow between 1788 and 1803. It evaluates the instruments, observational techniques and the accuracy of observations. It analyzes the observations of solar and lunar eclipses, occultations of stars by the Moon, transits of Mercury across the Sun, eclipses of the moons of Jupiter, positional observations of planets and asteroids, and determination of geographical coordinates of the Cracow Observatory.
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Jędrzej Śniadecki (1756-1830) was the famous Polish geographer - primarily the astronomer. He is an author of the first Polish handbook of general gephysics Geography. The present paper is written for 200th anniversary of rise of this work.
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