AT SANTIAGO DE CHILE. 



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Remarks. 



Extremely blurred and indistinct. Measures by daylight. The star is not larger than 7.8th magnitude, instead of 6th magnitude, as in the Wash 

 ington Catalogue. 



Results. 



h. m. s. 

 Mean .... Five transits . . . 35 30.70 



h. m. m. s. 



Correction for chronometer at 35 . . . 440.90 



h. m. 

 A p at 31 . . 



s. Rev. 



30.54 .... +8.298 



Santiago sid. time S. P. 



h. m. s. 

 30 49. 8C 



0.56 



DECEMBER 4, 1850. 



At night the star was too distant for observation. 



DECEMBER 5, 1850. 



The stir was scon too dimly for differential measurements with the equatorial. 

 Diameter of Venus from a mean of 10 measures at Oh. 30m. sid. time, 3.238 rev. Corrected diameter, 60&quot;.91. 



DECEMBER 29, 1850. 



Unable to distinguish the comparing star in the morning twilight. 



DECEMBER 31, 1850. 



Comparing star undistinguishable in the morning twilight. 



JANUARY 5, 1851. 



Only the morning&quot; of the 1st (3d civil) and 5th (6th civil) of January have been clear; but it has not boon possible to distinguish the comparing 

 star, when Venus was sufficiently above the horizon for observation*. 



