‚ N. V. OBSERVATIO.COMETZ 
Die Lun® 16 (26)!O&obris 1699, 
No&te precedente celum'ferenum. Horä quarta matutina hudis ocıt- 
ls aliquid nebulofi verfus meridiem detexi , in ea lineä re£tä exiftens, qua 
ä Rigel per Sirium producebatur, propius verö Sirio, quam Sirius erat ftel- 
I Rigel. Contemplabar illud per tubum 2 pedum, & fimile mihi vide- 
batur hoc phedömenon felle nebulofz, fatis tenue, absque nucleo ; fed 
tamen fatis magaum, Tales nebulof= diverf® aliäs in Coelo reperiuntur, 
. minores & majores, qua verd plurimim per tubum tanrum funt confpi- 
cux, exceptä illä in Cingulo Andromedz, qu& etiam nudis oculis bene 
confpicitur, Dubitabarh alıguandiu utrum hanc nubeculam ftellam nebu« 
lofam, an Cometam: puncuparem, ' Primo.nullum nucleum,, vel nikil (o- 
lidi, in eo Cometä deprehendi, ‚poftea verd parva ftella‘prope illum dete- 
gebatur , ad levam ejus , per tubnm obje&ta invertentem; quz fenfim 4 Co- 
metä difcedebar, ira ur hec nebula ceruffime effer Comera, & quidem! ‚n10» 
tu celeri praditus.. „ Poftea diftantias. quasdam dimetiebar, qua hie feguuntur: 
Ta Tub,zped.] 0... id ap 
Mm | 
SEE 
140 uH 8.:28| Comera a 
159 2) 177,39" Gorneta af I 
a 02 de ar Far 5 59 } Cometa = Bash Ha 
Zen 
5. 9 
50; adhuc aperiebam! . 
1 
220  |3. 21.,52| Comeab| 
Plura metiri non potui, Comera enim difparebat, ob diluculum, 
n Temp. core. ] .., 
H’ | aa Be as We degree, I 
$. 21° ]34. 30|Aldebaran |5. 56, 721°) 
| 25 13410 Rurfus ‘ az aa re 
5. 293 ]33: 49/|Demo ga 
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Situm Cornetz poft Horam 5, tantum ex memoria delineatum exhi« 
bet Tab, III. Fig. I N 
NB, Putabam primo ftellulam 2 effe illam, qu& afitea proxime ad Co- 
metam exfliterit: hoc vero ita fe habere nomporeft, quia Cometa certe non 
verfus # tendit, (ed ab.« dilcedirz echt ideo retrogradusien dr ° 
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