228 REPORTS FROM THE SECTIONS. 
Note on the Star “ Brisbane, 6183.” 
By Joun Tessurt, F.R.A.S. 
[Read before the Astronomical Section, 2 August, 1878.] 
WHILE engaged last evening in micrometer observations of stars in 
1822 and 1826 asof the seventh magnitude, had either disappeared 
or become almost invisible in my equatorial of 44 inches aperture. 
I succeeded in identifying the stars numbered 6142, 6172, 6177, 
6181, 6196, and 6220 in the Brisbane catalogue, but the only stars 
in the catalogued Ltertiea of 6183 are two or three 
excessively faint ones. They are barely distinguishable in my 
even on a brilliant sky with the moon absent, and it is 
therefore impossible to determine their position with "the micro- 
meter; this, oncibah might be done with the 111-inch refractor of 
the e Sy ey Observatory. It is quite possible that the catalogued 
position of 6183 may be an erroneous observation of 6196, the 
right ascension being almost exactly two minutes of time too small. 
The south polar distances in the catalogue agree within a fraction 
of a second. 
_ The non-appearance of the star may be thus accounted for, but 
in the meantime it will be well to record the fact in the Proceed- 
ings of the Astronomical Section of the Royal Society. The star 
is not to be found in Lacaille’s catalogue. 
Windsor, June 28th, 1878. 
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