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VI. Account of the Discovery of a new Comet. By Miss Caroline 
Herschel. 'In a Letter to Sir Joseph Banks, Bart. K. B . 
P. R. S. 
Read November 12, 1795. 
SIR, Slough, November 8, 1795. 
Last night, in sweeping over a part of the heavens with my 
5-feet reflector, I met with a telescopic comet. To point out 
its situation I transcribe my Brother's observations upon it 
from his Journal. 
November 7, 1795. 
o h 33' Sidereal time. Place of the comet 2 0 20' np. 37 (y) 
Cygni, in a line continued from 66 (u) through y nearly. 
It is just visible to the naked eye. 
o h 44'. It is in a line between two small stars at a consi- 
derable distance from each other, to which are perpendicular 
the two extreme stars of three other stars, that form a small 
arch approaching to a straight line. 
o h 49'. The comet precedes the point in the line where 
the perpendicular of the arch crosses the line of the two stars 
one-fifth of the distance of the bisecting point from the pre- 
ceding star. 
i h 25'. The comet is visibly moved from the place where 
it was o h 49'. 
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