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B86 ObJervations on the Satellites of the Georgium Planet, 
Herfehcl, amounts to 32h. 53m. 9 fec. A more accurate 
coincidence could not be expected in fo {mall a circles +» 
TIT On’ the goth of F ebruary, "im the evening, as the 
weather was favourable, we directed the twenty-feven fect 
“refleGtor to Saturn, and M. Harding’ fienified that he ob- 
‘ferved, very clearly, a fmall Juminous point, near the ring, 
which from its diftance and appearance he thought might 
be one of the fatellites. I faw it alfo myfelf very diftin@ly 
and with perfect certainty. Each delineated its: pofition 
feparately; and both delineations correfponded: exaély. 
About 10h. 44 m. true time, he faw it, not as exhibited by 
the front view, but according to its true pofition at ¢, in the 
orbit of the fixth fatellite; and the calculation afterwards 
made, proved that it actually was the fixth:fatellite, obferved 
tnaand b on the evening of the 17th with the thirteen 
fect reflector ; for from the r7th, 11h. 24m.,, to the goth, 
toh. 44m. there had elapfed 71 hours 20 minutes, in 
’ which time this fatellite muft have performed 2°16, nearly 
2 whole periods and not quite 7, of its fynodical revolution, 
and have appeared removed not fully one fixth of its orbit 
towards the weft from 4. If the pofition of the planet.atfuch 
a weftern diftance from b be projected, 1t will be found to 
correfpond very accurately with the obferved point c. 
IV. On the 21ft of February, when viewing Saturn and 
his fatellites, for another purpofe, with the thirteen, feet 
reflector, I for fome time found no appearance.of the fixth 
fatellite; but I at length difcovered it, and,-as.I believed, 
“with perfect certainty, At about 7h. 30m. .it ftoodyin A. 
V. About 11 o’clock, the fame evening, our obfervations 
‘were continued with the twenty-feven feet reflector and a 
magnifier of almoft 200. Deceived by the: front; (view: of 
the inftrument, I imagined that the fixth fatellite, according 
to the before-made obfervations, muft ftand fomewhat to thy 
») right ofthe ring. I believed alfo that J faw a point at, or 
according to the pofition with the fmall reflector of the thir- 
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