On the netv Planet Pallas. 



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Mr. Harding's two observations of the right ascension 

 were as follow : 



Dr. Olbers also, who possesses a wonderful dexterity in 

 obscrvins: with the circle micrometer, has hitherto been able 

 to obtain only two observations. This excellent observer, 

 in a letter dated February 23d, says, " I find observations of 

 Pallas very difficult, on account of its faint light, and there- 

 fore they are not very accurate. The declination, in parti- 

 cular, is somewhat doubtful. In the place where Pallas 

 ouorht to have stood on the 23d of February there were four 

 small telescopic stars, among which I however discovered 

 Pallas as the brightest. On the 23d of February, at 10'' 19' 

 24" mean time, after six comparisons with No. 42 of Po- 

 niatowsky's Bull, the planet followed this star 2' 15-3" in 

 time. 



These two observations are as follow ; but Dr. Olbers 

 still gives the declination as very doubtful : 



1603. 



Feb. 21 

 23 



\I<;an time at 

 Bremen. 



Apparent 

 .'V.R.ofPallai, 



17h 6> 10" 272 56 45 

 15 24 36 273 28 3§ 



Apparent 



Declin.ition 



of PMlas. 



7 31 14 N. 

 7 46 1 



Stars with which 



compared according 



to Bode's Catal. 



No.36Pon. Bull, 

 No. 42 



Dr. Olbers, in a letter dated March 3d, says, " The wea- 

 ther has been very unfavourable for observing Pallas. Nei- 

 ther Harding nor I have been able to see it again, on account 

 of the cloudy state of the atmosphere ; and as it is now 

 moon-light, it will again be lost for some time." The in- 

 defatigable Dr. Gauss, however, could not withstand the 

 great desire he had to undertake an improvement of the ele- 

 ments, intending at a future opportunity to correct them 

 still further from new observations. 



These six new elements are as follow : 



Epocii meridian of Seeberg 1 802 - - 143° 28' 17-2' 

 Noon 1803 - - 221 28 54*0 

 D 2 Greater 



