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INFERIOR CONJUNCTION OF VENUS, 1852, 



AUGUST 4, 1852 Continued. 



Remarks. 



Venus twinkling to the unassisted eye. Neither object was ever sharp or steady. 



a Perhaps a little open. 

 Diameter of Venus from a mean of 6 measures, at 3A. 23m. sid. time, 2.917 rev. Corrected diameter, 54" .65. 



Mean N. F. . . One transit . 

 Mean S. F. . . Three transits 



h. m. 



Correction for chronometer at 2 56 

 Correction for chronometer at 3 



A N. S. limbs micr. in rev. . . 

 Variation of declination in 4m. 56s. 

 Corr. for diam. of micr. wires 

 Observed N. S. diameter . . . 



Results. 



h. m. s. 



2 55 32.96 



3 29.46 



s. 



. +41.10 

 . +41.10 



2.633 = 51.32 



+ 0.56 



2.20 



49.68 



m. s. Rev. ' '' 



338.74 . . +0.445 .... =0 8.67 

 . 339.39 .... +3.078 .... =059.99 



h. m. s. 



Santiago sid. time N.F 25614.06 



Santiago sid. time S. F 31 10.56 



Interval 4 56.50 



h. m. " 



A pat 2 58 0.03 



A pat 3 3 0.18 



AUGUST 5, 1852. 



There being an error of 10" in the computation of 14596 H. C., there is no comparing star for this day. The same star was also selected for the 

 6th of August. 



AUGUST T, 1853. 

 Cirri prevented any star smaller than a 5th magnitude from being seen to the N. E. during the morning twilight. 



Remarks. 



Object very badly defined, and the star so dim that no reliance can be placed on Hie measures. 



