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ExiraBoJ a Letter Mfl^/w Hevelius ffom Dantzick rvrkten 
to the Pubhjher in LariUj March 9. {fi.nov,') 1672 ; ^ving 
fome Accompt of a New Comer, lately feen in that Cmntry : 
EngUffOed as jollomth. 
IShail not excufe my long filecce^ but acquaint you in 
brief with a New Appearance io the Heavens. There 
hath been feen here a iV^n? from the 2.^/ of March 1672 ^ 
which I my felf, being fome daies abfent from home and from 
my inftruments, could not obferve till March 6th in the 
crening* Ic is feen both mornings and evenings* Ic is bus 
little, having at the prefent a train not above a degree or a 
degree and an half long ": which would doubtlefs appear big- 
ger^ if it werenot for the twy-light, and the Moon were ab- 
fent. It is now about the Stars in the right Arm oi Andromeda se^Fz/o 
on her Shoulder-blade. As far as I can colled: from one or two 13. n?^. 
obfervations , it tends towards the Ludda of Andromeda s 
girdle, and that Vi^ith a direft diurnal motion of about two 
degrees in its courfe. 
The 6th of March in the eveningj h. 7» 4^ • g^^^? 
7. of V'in the:?5^/& dcg* of Northern Latitude 5 as I gueffed 
by the hafty infpedion of a Globe. 
- March 7. in the morning h. 5.50'. its Longitude was about 
S^deg.v, with a fomewhat leflcr latitude than before.- in 
the Evening of the fame day its Longitude was 10. deg.T^ 
and Latitude 34* deg./^re. 
March 8. in the morning h.4» the Longitude vi^as 12. deg.V. 
and the Latitude 33»deg.- Which yet 1 would not have taken 
precifelyj becaufeT cannot yet reduce my Obfervations to 
a ^-^/r^/^/. This evening, I hope, I (hall fee him again 5 al- 
though tkis morning we could fee nothing by reafon of the 
dark weather. 
I I intend to fend you by the next more particular and 
more accurate Obfervaiiorfs, which I purpofe to make care- 
fully 5 as oft as lean, with my Brafs Oftant, which is about 
9 feet long. And I long to hear^ what you or other Nations 
have obferved of this Phenomenon* 
Mm mm 2 Belidesj 
