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Passage of Perihelion, time reckoned from mid- 

 night, 1826, March 18. 94 



Perihelion distance, - 0.9.61 



Long, of Perihelion, - 3. s 14° 20' 00" 



Long of ascending Node, - - 8 7 54 10 



Inclination, - - - 14 39 15 



Motion Direct. 



3. Return of the brilliant Comet of Taurus from the Southern Hemisphere. 

 — This comet, which was discovered by M. Pons, on the 15th July 1825, 

 was rediscovered by If* Pons on the 4th April 1826, and has been observed 

 at Florence, Nimes, and Palermo. The parabolic and elliptical elements 

 of MM. Capocci and Hansen deviate considerably from the new observa- 

 tions. 



4. Comet of August 1826. — This comet was discovered by M. Gambard 

 at Marseilles, on the 1 5th August. The elements are as follows : 



5. Comet of October 1 826, and its passage across the Sun's .Owe.— This 

 comet was discovered by M. Gambard of Marseilles, on the 28th October 

 1826. Its corrected elements are as follows : 



Passage of Perihelion, mean time reckoned from 



midnight, - November, 18. 8083 



Perihelion distance, - - 0.02314 



Long, of Perihelion, - - 314° 57' 28" 



Long, of Asc. Node, - - 236 9 54 



Inclination of Orbit, - - 89 59 24 



Motion, Retrograde. 



From these elements it follows, that the comet must have entered upon 

 the disc of the sun at - - 5 h 25 a. m. 



Passage of its Node, at - - ? h 1 



Shortest distance from Sun's centre, - 2' 40" 



Emersion from Sun's disc, - - 8 b 38 



M. Gambard is quite certain, from observations made on the 10th No- 

 vember, when the error of the elements was only —2" in long, and — 5" 

 in lat. that the comet should have passed over the sun's disc. He did not 

 succeed, however, in observing it at Marseilles, as the sun did not ap- 

 pear till 8 h 35', when there was nothing upon his disc but the spots seen 

 the day before. The weather was not favourable either at London, Geneva, 

 or Paris. Bibl. Univ* November 1826, p. 251. 



6. Observations on the Solar Eclipse of November 29M, 1826.— This 

 eclipse was observed at Bushey Heath, by Lieut. Beaufoy, in west long. 

 1' 20" 93 time, and north lat- 51° 37' 44" 3. 



