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Table of the Petitions of the Stars, with which the 
Comet was compared, reduced to the time of the 
Obfervations. 
Rig. Afc. Dec. Nor. 
o / n 
14 8 O 1 of the knot Pifc, Comet comp. 8, 9, 10, 1 1, 12, 13, & 14. 
13 28 101 Pifc. of Flamftead Com. comp, the 11, 12, 13, & 13. 
13 6 3 ® io 4 °f Pifc- Comet compared the 14. 
From thefe Obfervations, Mr. Pingre has computed the 
Elements of the Orbit of this Comet, as follows. 
*9 45 ) 
20 49 c 
21 41 24 
Place of the afeending node q — 
Inclination of the orbit 
Place of the perihelion! 
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8 4 10 50 
40 50 20- 
4 23 15 25 
9 - 7 ° 357 ° 
Logarithm of the perihelion did. 
The comet pafs’d its perihelion, the 17th of ^Feb- 
ruary, at 8 h 50', mean time at the meridian of Paris. 
The motion of the comet retrograde. 
Obfervations of the fecond Comet of 1766, dif covered at 
the Marine Obfervatory at Paris, one month after the 
former , viz. the 8 th of April. By Mr. Meltier, &c. 
The 8th of April, the fky having cleared up after 
many days of cloudy weather; on the evening at 8 
o’clock, being gone to the Marine Obfervatory, to ob- 
ferve fome trantits of Ears on the meridian, and look- 
ing on the heavens towards the wed, I difeovered, by 
my naked eye, near the horizon, and at a little 
didance from the Pleiades, a comet, which already 
appeared contiderable ; the tail was about 4 degrees in 
length, the light lively, the nucleus very bright and 
equally luminous with Ears of the 3d magnitude. The 
comet was at a fmall didance from the brighted dar 
of the condellation of mufea, which Flamdead, in the 
lecond 
