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[CETUS]

yellow, lucid blue, 1831-1843: De 7 olive-green, 1854 [tawny, 1850]. D angles very discordant. c. p. m.

v (Σ 281). 11h 29m, N 5° 4′: 45, 15: 85°: 6′′: pale yellow, blue. Sm 15 a glimpse-star; [easy, 5 in., 1861.]

37 (23 App. I). 1h 8m, S 8° 37′: 6, 75: 332°3: 51": creamy white, dusky. 2 c. p. m. np lies another pair, 8, 10: 20": yellow, violet. 2° p 0.

42 (113). 1h 13m, S 1° 11′: 6, 8: 332°8, 1834; De 343°, 1863 12: bright white, white. [Moving. D questions this. I have not seen it.]

PO 146. oh 34m, S 5° 4' 6'5, 9: 289°9: 58′′: yellow, flushed blue..

66 (≥ 231). 11h 6m, S 3° 0': 7, 8·5: 229°·6: 15′′4: pale yellow, sapphire blue. C. p. m.? Σ angular movement. 14° p Mira, a little n.

PO 113 (239). oh 28m, S 5° 16′: 7, 9: 44°6: 19′′6: yellowish, fine blue. [9 over-rated? 1850.]

61. 1h 57m, S 。° 58′: 7, 11: 188°.8: 39′′: pearly white, 1834 [pale orange, 1850], greenish. I found attendant very obvious with averted eye. Birmingham another comes, est. 13: 330: 55′′. Followed a little s by Σ 218. 7, 8.5: 249°8: 46: white, blue. [A little p this is a pale ruby, with distant comes 11 m. and sp a star 7 m. with 2 small attendants.] 61 is 3° s a little ƒ a Piscium.

(58. 1h 51m, S 2° 42': 6'5, 14: est. 15°: 3′′5; test for 6 in. Burnham. About 2° 8 p 61. P could not find 58.)

( 150. 1h 37m, S 7° 46': 72, 78: 195°5: 36" very white.)

[x. 1h 44m, S 11° 17' forms a fine pair with P I 182. 5 75: pale yellow, bluish. Closely s p .]

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[About 1h 35m, S 8° o' is a beautiful 8 m. pair, s a little p

PI 167, 6 m.]

Nebula.

600 (M 77). 11h 36m, S o° 33'. 1° fd, a little s. Small, faintish; very near a 9 m. star.

times more distant than I m. stars!

now? E. of Rosse spiral, blue.

I thought it at least 910

But qu. these inferences

CLYPEUS (or SCUTUM) SOBIESKII.

This asterism, which worthily associates the memory of the Polish hero with the most brilliant part of the Galaxy visible in our latitudes, is full of splendid telescopic fields: and the very ground of the Milky Way seems here resolvable. [Red Star. XVIIIh 43m, S 8° 3': 9 m. H.]

Clusters and Nebula.

4397 (M 24). XVIII 11m, S 18° 27'. Magnificent region, visible to the unaided eye as a kind of protuberance of the Galaxy; and so considered by H, who gives stars 15 m. It is accompanied by two little pairs. 2° n of μ Sagittarii. 4400 (M 16). XVIIIh 11m, S 13° 50'. Grand cluster. 4401 (M 18). XVII1h 12m, S 17° 11'. Glorious field in a very rich vicinity. s lies a region of surpassing splendour. 4432 (M 26). XVIIIh 38m, S 9° 32'. Coarse cluster.

4403 (M 17). XVIII 13m, S 16° 15'. The horse-shoe' neb. visible in finder, 1°n of M 18, described by Sm as 'a magnificent, arched, and irresolvable nebulosity,—in a splendid group of stars.' Well has he observed, 'the wonderful quantity of suns profusely scattered about here would be confounding, but for their increasing our reverence of the Omnipotent

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Creator, by revealing to us the immensity of the creation.' The neb., however, Huggins finds to be gaseous.

COMA BERENICES.

A gathering of small stars, which obviously at a sufficient distance would become a nebula to the naked eye.

Double Stars.

12. XI1h 16m, N 26° 34′: 5, 8: 168°2: 66′′: straw-yellow, rose-red; Kn 8 grey lilac, 1872; [pale blue, 9 in. spec. 1872.] 10 sp 16, the 'lucida' of the constellation. [The latter beautifully placed in a little triangle of 8 or 9 m. stars; a curious row of 4 stars p.]

35 (1687). Triple. x11h 47m, N 21° 57′: 5, (not given; Kn 7 5, 1872), 10: 42°, 126°5: 1′′:5, 29′′, 1843; Kn 52°9: 13, 1865; De 55°6: 12, 1869: pale yellow, lilac, full blue. Binary. [Not well examined.]

24 (1657). XI1h 29m, N 19° 6' 5'5, 7: 272°1: 21": orange, lilac [striking and beautiful contrast, 1872].

2 (2 1596). x1h 58m, N 22° 11': 6, 75: 239°9: 3"6: pearly white, lilac.

P XII 202, 201 ( 1685). xiih 45m, N 19° 53′: 7'5, 8: 2019: 16" 2: white. 2° s of 35.

[ 1633. XII 14m, N 27° 47': 71, 72: 245°1: 8"+7: very white.-Bode 55. [A solitary object.]

· [17. XI1h 22m, N 26° 38', forms a fine pair (Σ 21 App. I) with P XII 96; colours somewhat different. Σ white, bluish white. The smaller star, by averted vision, seemed more surrounded than the other with scattered light, 3 in. 1852; not perceptible, 9 in. spec. 1872.]

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Nebulæ.

XII1h 7m, N 18° 52'.

1558 (M 53). Brilliant mass of minute stars (H 11-15 m.), blazing in centre. H curved appendages. [Not very bright, 3 in.-beautiful, 9 in. spec.]

3321 (M 64). XI1h 50m, N 22° 23'. Magnificent large bright neb. blazing to a nucleus. H resolvable, nucleus probably double star, with vacuity below it. [rather faint, 31 in.]

3106 (H V 24). XI1h 30m, N 26° 42'. Long streaky neb. with parallel patch on ƒ limb; 'extraordinary phænomenon.' [very faint, 3 in.; well seen, 9 in. spec.]

[2946 (M 85). XI1h 19m, N 18° 55'. Fair specimen of the many nebulæ in this region: midway from 24 towards 11, the nearest conspicuous star p, a little s.]

CORONA BOREALIS.

A constellation resembling more than usual the object whose name it bears.

Double Stars.

(1965). xvh 34m, N 37° 4' 5, 6: 301°2: 6"1: flushed white, bluish green.

22 (Σ 29 App. I). xvih 18m, N 34° o': 5, 12 [10, 1850, 1855]: 179: 137": pale yellow, 1838 [deep yellow, 1855], garnet, forms a fine group with v1, 5 m. deep yellow, and a 6 m. grey star f. 51⁄2 in. shew a minute comes to v1.

n (1937). xvh 18m, N 30° 46': 6, 65: 57°2: "8, 1832; 188°5: elong. 1846; D 27°•5: 1′′1, 1865; Kn 35°7: I", 1867; 45°8: 1", 1871: white, golden yellow. One of H's severest tests. It would have been interesting to look at

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so wonderful an object as a pair of suns revolving in the brief period of 43 y. (Winnecke), even though we could only see them closed up into one; but it has been much easier of late. Visible to naked eye, a little out of the curve of the coronet. Sm speaks of a glimpse-star nf. I have seen it with 9 in. mirror; Buffham 6·2 in.

☛ ( 2032.) xvih 10m, N 34° 11′: 6, 6·5: 107°6: 1"•3, 1830; Se 192°4: 3′′, 1865; Kn 194°7: 3′′, 1867; 195°3: 32, 1871 creamy white, smalt blue, 1830-1843; but colours questionable; P Sm 6 bluish, 1856; South 6.5 'certainly not blue; it differs very little from the large star in colour,' 1825; Σ 6.5 white, 1836; De 6, 6·5 yellow, yellow sometimes ashy, 1854-5; white, ashy, 1856; red, doubtful blue, 1857; Se 6.5 sometimes blue, sometimes yellow, 1855— 1857; Kn very pale yellow, blue, 1871; [6.5 sometimes ruddy, sometimes bluish, 1850, 1855, 3 in. more than m. difference, 1855; bluish, more than m. 51⁄2 in., 1862; De rated them 53, 65, 1854-5; Se mags. very discordant.] Binary; period very uncertain; extremes, Hind, 737 y. Jacob, 195 y. Followed at 44", 1839, by a little blue star, 11 m. Sm. 15 or 20 m. South, 1825, not visible with more than 92 of a very fine 5 in. achrom. [readily seen with 80, 144, 250 of 310 in. 1850.] De distance more than 51", 1862, from c. p. m. of pair. 2° p v.

[Σ 1932. xvh 13m, N 27° 19′: 5'6, 6·1: 273°·8: 1"6, 1830; De 290°3: 12, 1863: very white: mags. var.? Binary. 21° p a, 10' n.]

(0. xvh 28m, N 31° 46′, 4′5 m. is followed, a little s, by two pairs, 75, 9; and 9,9: 5". Birmingham.)

(T. xvh 54m, N 26° 18'. The 'Blaze star' with a double

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