AT SANTIAGO DE CHILE. 



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Remarks. 



Fine morning. Images good and motion equable. Cirri prevented earlier measures. There.is a small star preceding the planet 4t. or St., which 

 at the commencement, was recorded as below it. 



a Very good measures. c Planet certainly south of the preceding star. 



6 Planet's south limb and the preceding star precisely d Daylight. Rejected this pair, 



on the same parallel. 



Diameter of Venus from a mean of 10 measures, by daylight, at 13A. 15m. sid. time, 2.059 rev. Corrected diameter, 38". 00. 



Results. 



h. tn. s. 

 Mean . . Eight transits 12 19 35.28 



h. s. s. 



Correction for chronometer at 12 i!0 . . . . 49.50 



in. s. Rev. 



6 38.10 .... +8.966 . . 



Santiago sid. time S. F. 



= 2 54.75 



ll. 111. s. 

 12 18 45.78 



h. m. 

 A pat 12 22 0.14 



JANUARY ::,. 1891. 

 Cirri prevented the morning observation*. 



