and positions 0/4,58 double and triple stars , &c. 209 
No. DCLXXXV. continued. 
procured. There is a small star* between 3 6 and 38, but 
which when examined with 413 and 512, 1 could not suspect 
to be double ; nor was the large star of 38 sub-divided by 
those powers. 
Passy ; July 13, 1825 ; Seven-feet Equatorial. 
8th and 13th, or 15th magnitudes. 
Position = 62° 12' np 
Distance = 7 ".y %5 
7 Obs. 
5 Obs. 
Diff! = o".36o } Excessivel y difficult. 
The small star is so extremely obscure, that the measures deserve but very little 
confidence. Observed on the meridian. Night favourable. 
Passy; July 14, 1825 ; Seven-feet Equatorial. 
8th and 14th, or 15th magnitudes. 
Position =: 6o° 53' np 
Distances 7". 359 
7 Obs. 
5 Obs. 
Diffi = o".6oi } Excessivel y difficult. 
Observed on the meridian with 157 : the small star so extremely faint, that with 
1 8 1, the common observing power, I could not distinguish it. The accuracy of the 
results very questionable , 
Passy ; July 20, 1825 ; Seven-feet Equatorial. 
8th and 13th, or 14th magnitudes. 
Diff.' = ?".2 5 °o } Extremel y unsteady. 
The measures are so excessively difficult, that I feel but little confidence in their 
accuracy. 
Mean Result. 
Position 6o°50 / np( 28 Obs.) ; Distance 7". 137 ; Epoch 1825.53. 
If the star here measured be really the same with I. 35, its 
distance must be much increased. 7". 137 is a great distance, 
for a star even of the 2nd class. In 1783 it is described as 
having the interval of the discs only diameter of the large 
star, which, for a star of the 8th magnitude, could hardly 
correspond to more than 4," from centre to centre. The 
angles, it is true, agree — that given by Sir W. Herschel in 
1783 being 6o° 48 ' np, differing only 2' from its present value. 
This star requires further observation. (H.) 
* This star is 30 Scorpii, and it is the only star in the neighbourhood which is 
likely to be mistaken for 38 Ophiuchi. 
Position = 59° 5 np 7 Obs. 
Distance = 7".! 55 5 Obs. 
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