VOL. VII.] PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS. 70g 



througli these two stars, almost touched the southern extremity of his chevelure. 

 This place of the comet, transferred upon the map of the fixed stars, fell on 

 23° 25' of Taurus, in 14° N. lat. 



March the 28th, at 42 minutes after seven, in the evening, the comet was 

 24' distant from the less bright star of the southern foot of Perseus, and had 

 nearly the same latitude with it. So that it was precisely enough at 26° 8' of 

 Taurus, and in the latitude of 12° 8'. At 14 minutes after 8, the distance of the 

 comet frorn Aldebaran was 19° 38', and at 29 minutes after 8, the distance from 

 Capella was found to be 22° 32'. 



March 30, at 35 minutes after 9 at night, the comet seen without a teles- 

 cope, a})peared as a star of the 4th magnitude ; through the telescope he exceed- 

 ed even those of the first, but it was very obscure, and without any perceptible 

 tail. It had passed one degree and a half beneath the lucida of the southern 

 foot of Perseus ; so that this star was exactly in the midst between the comet 

 and the little star in the leg of Perseus, marked » by Bayer;' its place there being 

 28° 45' of Taurus, and 9° 56' N. lat. 



March 31, at eight in the evening, the comet was in a direct line with the 

 lucida in the foot of Perseus, and with the most northern in the head of Tau- 

 rus ; but he was more than twice as far from the first as from the other, which 

 being transferred on the map of the fixed stars, gave 15' of Gpmini, in latitude 



&• 49'. 



April the 1st, it had passed 45' beyond the most northern star of the head of 

 Taurus, and that he must have touched it by its southern limb; as also that it 

 was distant 1°43' from the star that was nearest to that toward the south. This 

 place being transferred on the map of the fixed stars, it gave 30' of Gemini, in 

 lat. 7° 44'. 



April the 2d, at eight o'clock in the evening, it was 2° 30' distant from the 

 most northern star of Taurus ; and one degree from the star of the ear, marked 

 <p by Bayer, and by Tycho, called sequentis lateris borea. Two lines drawn 

 from the most northern star of Taurus, one to the comet the other to the star 

 that is wanting in Bayer, made a right angle ; and the distance of the comet 

 from this angle, was double of that which is between these two stars. This 

 place transferred on the map of the fixed stars, fell on 2° 48' of Gemini, in lat. 

 6° 40' N. 



At 50m. after 6, the line drawn through the horns of the moon passed through 

 the star, that is at the point of the northern horn of Taurus, and the distance 

 of this star to the northern horn of the }) was, by a minute, greater than the 

 semidiameter of the moon. 



April the 3d, at nine o'clock, the comet was at 4° from the sign of Gemini, 

 in N. lat. 5° 38'. 



