laANET JUNQ, 



*' The new ftar being, now in the meridian with all thofe Obfcrvatlons on 

 to wliich I am comparing it, and the air at this altitude the planet Juno, 

 being very clear, I ftill find appearances as before defcribed : 

 the new object cannot be diftinguifhed from, the ftars by 

 magnifying power, fo that this celeftial body is a true af- 

 teroid." 



. Mr. Bode's liars 19, 25 and 27 Ceti are marked 7m, and by 

 Comparing the afteroid, called Juno, withthefe ftars, it has the 

 appearance of a fmall one of the 8th magnitude. 



With regard to the diameter of Juno, the author remarks 

 that had it been half a fecond, he muft have inftantly per- 

 ceived a vifible difk. Such a diameter, when he faw it magni- 

 fied 879,4 times, would have appeared under an angle of 

 7' 19^,7, one half of which, it will be allowed, from the ex- 

 periments that have been detailed, could not have efcaped his 

 notice. 



. Oct. 1. Between flying clouds, the afteroid was feen, which 

 in its true ftarry form has left the place where it was feen Sept. 

 29. It has taken the path in which by calculation it was ex- 

 peeled to move. This afcertains that no miftake in the ftar was 

 made when laft obferved. 



Oft 2, 7 h . Mr. Harding's afteroid is again removed, but 

 is too low for high powers. 



8* 30'.. Viewed it now wiih 220,3 288,4 410,5 496,3 and 

 £79,4. No other di(k was vifible than that fpurious one which 

 fuch fmall ftars have, and which is not proportionally mag- 

 nified by power, 



With 288,4, the afteroid had a larger fpurious diik than 

 a ftar which was a little lefs bright, and a .f mailer fpurious 

 iliik than another ftar that was a little more bright. 



Oct 5, with 410,5. Thefituation of the. afteroid is now as 

 in Fig. 4. Its diik* which is probably the fpurious appearance 

 of ftars of that magnitude, was compared with a larger, an 

 equal, and a fmaller ftar. It was lefs than the fpurious dilk 

 of the larger, equal to that of the equal, and larger than that 

 of the frnaller ftar. The gradual difference between the three 

 flars is exceedingly fmall. 



" With 496,3, and the air uncommonly pure and calm, I fee 

 fo well that I am certain the di(k, if it be not a fpurious one, 

 is lefs than one of the fmalleft globules I faw this morning in 

 the tree/' 



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