146 ON THE COMET OF SEPTEMBER 1862. No. 2. 



Distance of perihelion from ascending deg. min. sec. deg. min. sec. 



node in the direction of motion 152 40 20 152 49 46 



Longitude of ascending node .. 137 8 33 137 13 37 



Inclination of orbit 65 41 39 66 9 35 



Motion . . . . . . . . Retrograde. Retrograde. 



NOTE. The longitude of the ascending node in Set I. is reckoned from 

 the mean equinox of September 1st, 1862; that in Set II., from the mean 

 equinox of January 1st, 1862. 



On the Comet of September 1862. No. 2. 

 By MR. JOHN TEBBUTT, JUN. 



[Read November 12th, 1862.] 



IN the course of the hist paper which I had the pleasure of 

 reading before the Society, I mentioned that, in all probability, 

 the comet which formed the subject of the paper was identical 

 with one discovered by M. Tempel, at Marseilles, on the 3rd July. 

 The intelligence we had received from Europe respecting the 

 discovery of the latter was very vague, consisting merely of a 

 brief announcement in the Illustrated Tondon News, of 12th July, 

 that a comet had been discovered as above in the constellation 

 Cassiopea. You will remember, that on calculating back from 

 the elements in the last paper, it was found that the comet seen 

 here was, on the 3rd July, in R.A. 76J degrees ; Declin. 04 

 degrees north. Finding this position was near Alpha and Bel a 

 Camelopardi, and therefore not far from the constellation Cassi- 

 opea, and making some allowance for the indefinite character of 



