64 ASTRONOMICAL OBSERVATIONS 



Other Obfervations of Jupiter and his Satellites. 



1776, 22 November, between nine and ten, I faw a 

 very fmall itar, not bigger than a Satellite, very near to 

 Jupiter. The configuration thus, 



At i2h. o/. 39". the configuration was thus, 



that is, the two outermoft Satellites had gone forward, 

 and Jupiter back, in right afcenfion, vifibly. 



30th November the configuration was thus, 



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that is, the (tar was north; diftant from the limb in de- 

 clination about the quantity of the lefler axis. In right 

 afcenfion the ftar was advanced further than Jupiter's 

 center, about a fifth of the axis. Some time after I 

 found that the little Satellite, which was below the limb, 

 hdd immerged into the difk; and foon after I faw the 

 fhadow of that Satellite upon the Great Belt. I ob- 

 ferved the fhadow go off the difk ; and about an hour 

 after that, the Satellite emerged a little to the north of 



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