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place with any precifion, till a fecond obfervatiou 
had made me more fully fatisfied of its being the 
phenomenon I wifhed it. 
The following evening, May ift, its place about 
ten o’ clock (as well as I was able to fix it with no 
better affiftance than a common globe, a quadrant, 
and Senex’s planifphere) was, right afcenfion about 
160 deg. declination a little more than 2y deg. S. 
in a part of the heavens not formed into any con- 
ftellation, about 9 deg. below the ftar in Crater , 
mark’d in Bayer’s catalogue a, and neareft to in 
Hydra j which laft ftar was about 3 deg. to the eaft 
of the comet. It is a luminous appearance, very 
evident to the naked eye (notwithftanding the light 
of the moon, within two or three days of her qua- 
drature), yet rather dim than fplendid ; large, but 
very ill defined. The telefcope, at the fame time it 
magnifies it, feems to render it more obfcure. The 
nucleus appears to me to be rather furrounded with 
a circular hazinefs, than to have a tail in any parti- 
cular direction, efpecially as feen thro’ a telefcope. 
Hampflead, 
May 1. 1759. 
Nicolas Munckley. 
P. S. The 2d of May I faw the comet again very 
diftindfly with the naked eye ; but being then in 
London, without either globe or planifphere, I 
did not pretend to fettle its place. 
The cloudinefs of the evenings prevented m) r 
feeing the comet any more till the 5th and 6th of 
May : and on thefe days partly thin clouds, and 
partly the increafing light of the moon, rendered 
it much lefs eafily difcernible, both by the naked 
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