New Comet. 



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several degrees as on Saturday night, when it measured from six 

 to ten degrees in length, and upwards of two degrees in breadth 

 at its extremity." 



The comet was observed at London and its vicinity, at Paris, 

 at Brussels, &c. on the same evening as at Gosport, namely, on 

 the 3d of July. 



The following is a table of the observations made upon it at the 

 Royal Observatory, Greenwich. On the 3d, 1 1th and 13th it was 

 observed on the meridian below the pole ; the observation of the 

 7tii v/as made with the large equatorial in the eastern dome. 



July: 



O 



Longitude. 



3 11 7 44 



i 20 39 3i 



Meau Time 

 of Obser- 

 vation. 



19 6 7 4 

 19 4 49 3 



Comet's 

 A.U. 



_ I II III 

 51 35 



92 90 



28 31 



Beclina- 



tiou 

 North. 



43 41 \i. 

 48 17 4i 

 SO 31 2S 



liongitude. 



3 9 56 3 

 3 19 28 51 

 i 14 40 4.-( 



31 3 15 40 15 



l(atitude 

 North. 



90 39 51 

 25 33 54 



Tt was at first supposed that- this comet was the same with that 

 discovered some months ago by M. Pons ; but from a notice on 

 that comet which has been recently read to the Academy of Mar- 

 seilles, by M. Blanpain, Director of the Royal Observatory there, 

 it appears that this is not the case. The comet discovered bv 

 M. Pons was not in the constellation Lynx, but that of Leo ; and 

 althougli it has ever since the 12th of June, the day of its disco- 

 very, rcgularlv increased in apparent size and brilliancy, it is still 

 very small, and quite invisible to the naked eye. Its nucleus is 

 besides indistinctly marked ; its rays are very faiuL ; and it has 

 no appearance of a tail. All these are circumstances which sepa- 

 rate it distinctly from the comet which is now the subject of ob- 

 servation. 



l\\. Bouvard, Member of the French Academy of Sciences and 

 Astronomer of the Bureau of Longitude, has made the following 

 calculation of the elements of this new comet. 



Passage to the perihelion, 2d August, at twelve, mid-day. 



Pciihclial distance ()-51744 



The distance of the earth from the sun being taken as unity. 



Longitude of the perihelion 0° 47' 



Longitude of the node 277 14 



Inclination of the orbit 44 57 



Heliocentric movement, direct. 

 M. B. however remarks, that these elements are as yet hut 

 approximations, and that this comet differs from all those which 

 have been hitherto observed. 



DEATH 



