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T = 1862, Dec. 28°18262. 
4 oo 126° 9° 42"-6 
Q = 355 44 57-9 
ee 42 22 52 5 
log. gs = 9°9044 
Motion retrograde. 
Comet I, 1863.—This comet was discovered by Dr. Bruhns of 
Leipeic, on the morning of Dec. 2d. The following elements have 
been computed by ” fn of Berlin. 
- 1863, Feb. 352928 Berlin m. t. 
- = A A eB Apparent equinox, 
et 1G Sb ae a an 
a a 85 21 42 ‘8 Bs ke rides 
log. g = 9°9002165 
ets eee 
6. Star Shower in December, 1565.—In a Sagenbuch der Lausitz by 
Karl Haupt, published in the Neus Lausitzisches Magazin (Gorlitz, 
1862), among A cab i am Himmel, gathered from old Lusatian 
chronicles, i is the followi 
“On the 3d of December deg? there fell at Sorau fire from heaven 
like flakes of snow.”—Magn s, (Joh . Lam.) Historische Beschreibung 
von Sorau, Leipz., "1710, ito. 
7. Shooting Stars seen in England in 1862.—The usual displays of 
shooting stars this year (1862), as seen near Manchester, have not been 
as well marked as usual; that of August 10th-11th, perhaps ‘id so than 
for the Jast fo ears, but the acne was not md favorable. vena 
of Nov. 9th-1 othe! was not in the least marked, e as regards the 
numbers or radiant. But the more newly d weather period for Dec. 
10th-12th has been exceedingly well defined, and the radiant point, 
both for the last year and for the present one, perfectly referable to a 
part of the heavens halfway. between § Aurige and « Geminorum.— 
R. P. Greg in Phil. Mag 
8. Auroral arch of ne 9th, 1863.—On the evening of April 9th, 
there was noticed at New Haven some appearance of an auroral fight 
between 7} and 8 o'clock. About 9 o’clock, white columns rose 
m the eastern and western horizon, and shot up towards the m 
their 9 inclining from a vertical direction about fifteen degrees towards 
the south. A line of shorter columns connected the two columns just 
mentioned, in such a manner as to form a tolerably regular arch, spanning 
the heavens, and _ passing oma over the Dipper. This arch was evi- 
dently formed of short stream rs parallel to each other. —— of them 
ENare ~~ 10° to 15° in le gi os nd for some time — ted the =. 
se ash : ’ 
the Bull. At 10 o’clock, the column in the east had disappeared entirely, 
while that in the west had very much faded, fat extended up nearly or 
_ quite to the meridian. During the entire evening, there was noticed a _ 
& _? This, it will be observed, is not the proper anniversary of the November shower, 
Am. Jour. 8ct.—Szconp Surtes, Vor. XXXV, No. 105.—Mar, 1863. 
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