\ i HUDSON IBSERVATORY. 



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I have been intending to compute the most probable orbit ol this cornel from a i 

 parison of all the observations. During the lasl half of March, the comet was followed 

 at nearly all the European observatories; but before the middle of the month, verj few 

 accurate observations were made. It was observed ;ii Trevandrum from ih<- 6th 

 March, and at the Cape of Good Hope from the 3d. These last observations (if thej 

 possess an} thing of the accuracy which maj I"- anticipated from the character of the 

 observer,) are indispensable to the computation of the final orbit, and I have been wait 

 hitherto for their publication. \~ soon as I receive them, I hope to find leisure to investi- 

 gate the orbil which satisfies, in the best possible manner, all the published observations. 



■ >. Tin Mavvaii Comet. 



Tins comet was observed from July 30, 1843, to Octobei I, twenty-five times. rh< 

 observations, for the most part, were made in the usual way, with the equatorial, but in i 

 few instances, it was observed in the transit instrument. These observations, however, 



are considered to be inferior to the former, for the c< i would bear no illumination. 



The following are the places of the stars employed in this » ri< a of observations. 



The comet's places given below are cow cted like the formi >ns. 



• This star I Piscinm, according to Piizzi, hai i] 



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