94 OPPOSITION OF MAES, 1851-52, 



DECEMBER 38, 1851 Continued. 



Remarks. 



ATI extremely fine night, definition superb, and nintion steady. The line bounding the zone is evidently darken near the western limb, :ind the 

 /.one it-elf apparently smaller than when lirsl sec],. There is no star in the place given in the Epliemcris, and an error of a minute in the declination 

 was pn.bably made in liessel, or in the Washington observations. 



a Wavy motion in these two observations. 



Results. 



h. m. s. 

 Mean S. F 7 39 13.53 



h. m. m. s. 



Correction for chronometer at 7 39 . . . 1 29.98 



m. s. Jlev. 



2 2.730 . . . . + 10.975 . 



Santiago sid. linir S. F. 



= 3 33.1)0 



h. in. s. 

 7 37 43.55 



Af>at740 0.18 



DECEMBER 33, 1851. 



Cloudy. 



