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before seveti: at the end of the month it will not rise till very near eight. The sun is now 
before the clock full sixteen rhjnutes and 2 quarter; but from the third inst. this difference, 
* which is then at its maximum, begins to diminish, and on the last day of November it will, 
be brought dowhi to eleven minutes. 
Towards the close of the month, Mercuty may be seén a8 a morning star. At sun-rise on 
the 30th, he will be 15° S. E. above the horizon. Mars also may be seen in the morning. 
Jupiter and Venus are to be seen in the evehing. The former is a fine object for the tele- 
scope every clear night through the whole month. Herschel and Satufn are too near the sun 
to be visible. ‘ 
A comet is said to have made its appearance. From a variety of avocations, we have mbt 
yet (26th) been able to look after it, and shall cofitent ourselves with transcribing what has 
been given by a Correspendent :— 
** The comet may be plainly seen on an evening, without the assistance of a telescope ; it 
is at present in the girdle of the cunstellation Andromeda, which is distinguished by three 
stars forming a curve; the brightest is of the second magnitude, called Mirach, the other two 
of the third magnitude ; if an imaginary line is drawn from Mirach through the middlé star, . 
and continued as mucli further on the other side, it would pass over the comet. It appears - 
like a star invested with a little light cloud; about half past seven it is forty-five degrees 
above the horizon, exactly over the east point of the compass, and passes the meridian nearly 
in zenith at half past ten at night.” 
To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
str, } 
I Srroncry suspect’ the supposed Comet to be a Nebula, since, aftet four or five nights 
ebsetvation, I could find no ascertainable change, cither in Decl. or R. A. If it be a Comet, 
it must be at a very great distance. 
In my statement, P.D. should have been 28, instead of 20, and N. D. 62 instead of 70, 
consequently. I know not of any Nebula in that precise situation ; yet I thought, with my 
best four-feet telescope of Dollond, it was resolvable, indistinctly, into a cluster of small 
stars. With every other it appeared like a single stat, surrounded with an oval haze. 
Tresten, October 24, 1808. Your’s &&c. 
; Carer LorrTs | 
On the 27th, Mr. Lofft writes again :—I think my observations of the 24th have enabled 
me at length to ascertain-the object concerning which the papers have spoken as of a Comet. 
The night was remarkably favourable. 2 ! 
Thave little doubt but that it is 28 R. A.j 48 .N.D. and éonsequently that it agrees so 
nearly with the Nebula marked on Adants’s globe, and in the French edition of Flamstead’s 
Atlas, as to persuade me, almost to a certainty, of its being the same. It does make the ver= 
tex of a nearly right-angled triangle, of which the Pleiades of Yi terminate the base. In 
rny night-glass it appears like a hazy, neariy circular light, denser towards the centre. My 
Dollond’s telescope, having a greater power, seems, though indistinctly, to resolve it into a 
cluster of small, and apparently, close stars: yet even with that, its appearance is very much 
that of a simple unresolved Nebula. It is, I believe, not more than 8’ or 10’ in diameter 
smaller and fainter thap the celebrated Nebula, between « andy Andromedz. This is be- 
tween the y, and the (2d) ¢ about 5° nearly above the » of the same constellation. 
From the 18th to the 24ch, both inclusive, I have not been able to distinguish any diffe- 
rence of position reiatively to four stars in square, including about 1°, which precede it, 
thus: s 
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