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fore invisible and could not be the supposed 5th satellite. 
The second was 77 0 nf ; distance 455; it was therefore visible, 
and agrees very well with the satellite miscalled the 5th ; the 
star between the second satellite and the planet must have 
been an interior satellite at its greatest northern elongation. 
At the time of observation, my defective tables made me 
suppose the nearest of the two to be the second satellite. 
1798, February 16, 9 11 25'. The supposed fifth satellite 
observed last night at n h 4T, I believe is gone from the place 
where I saw it at that time. The night is very beautiful; the 
planet however is still low, and I shall look for it again when 
it is higher. 
i° h 57 ; > the supposed fifth satellite is gone from its former 
place. It was so visible last night when near the planet, that 
I should certainly see it without difficulty if it remained in the 
same place, as the planet is now removed from it. 
n h 5', the first and second satellites are invisible. 
1 i h 12', there is a very faint satellite in the southern elon- 
gation ; probably the sixth ; and if it be the sixth satellite it 
is probably a little before or after its greatest elongation. It 
is excessively faint. 
i2 h 27', the weather is not so clear now, though still fine, 
but the sixth satellite cannot be seen ; it is plain, therefore, 
that the least haziness will render it invisible. 
J The first satellite was 8o|-° sp; distance 289, invisible; 
the second was 75-5- 0 nf ; distance 244, invisible. The interior 
satellite observed the fifteenth, being taken for the second, was 
not looked after; but as the supposed fifth was scrupulously 
ascertained to be removed, the interior satellite, had it been 
a star remaining in its former situation, must unavoidably 
