of Douhk Sliitf, ft 



FOURfH CLASS OF DOUBLE STARS. 



IV. 45. Ill pectoris crate Ononis. 



Dec. 27, Double. About f degree following i[/, towards 71 

 1781. Orionis. Extremely unequal. L. pr. ; S. dr. Dif- 

 tance with 278, 20'^ 3'^ Pofition 62° 24.' f. fol- 

 lowing. 



46. Fl. 21 :: Geminorum *. 



Dec. 27, Double. A little uaequal. Both pr. Diftancc 



1 78 1, about 25'^ Pofition 



47. Fl. 3 Leonis. 



Feb. 2, Double. Exceflively unequal. L. r. ; S. d. ; not 



1782. vifible with 227. Diftance eftimated with 460, about 

 24^^. Pofition a little n. following. A third ftar in 

 view. Diftance perhaps 2'. Pofition about 1 5® f. fol- 

 lowing. 



48. H (Fl. i*"") Geminorum praecedens ad boream. 



Feb. 6, Quintuple. In the form of a crofs. About f degree 

 1782. IL preceding H Geminorum, in a line parallel to the 

 65th Orionis and f Tauri ; the middle of three. The 

 two nearefl or preceding of the five extremely unequal. 

 Diftancc 20'' 57^^^' Pofition 7° 27' f. preceding. The 

 laft of the three, in the fhort bar of the crofs, has an 

 excefiiively obfcure flar near it of the third clafs. Five 

 more in viev%', differently difperfed about the quintuple. 



* The 21 ft and aOth Geminorum are not in the heavens as they are marked in 

 Flamsteed's Atlas, fo that it becomes doubtful whether the N'*^!. is right. 



N 2 49- 



