3$4 Mr. Herschel's and Mr. South's observations of the apparent 
/3 Cygni continued. 
Few stars are better determined than this, and few ap- 
pear subject to less variation either in angle or distance. We 
may fairly regard our mean result as true to o".i in distance, 
and \ a degree, or even less, in the angle. The angle of 
position deduced from the right ascensions and declinations 
of the stars at so early a period as Bradley's observations, 
cannot merit much reliance. The observations of 1816 by 
one of us, not at that time much practised in these delicate 
measurements, are not to be putin competition with the rest. 
No. CCXCVIII, R. A. i 9 h 34 ln ; Decl. 8° 43' S 
Aquilae 151 Bode; Struve, 629. 
8 and 81 magnitudes. 
August 28, 1823. 
Position. 
O © / 
90 — 33*35 
33*41 
33 * 1 1 
33*17 
33*25 
>S 
Mean — 33.26 
Five-feet Equatorial. 
s f 
Position = $6° 34/ sf 
Distance™ i / 37 /, *H2. 
Distance. 
Parts. 
3 ° 7 * 31 
30 7 * 3 i 
304. o ^ S 
307. 2 
306. 5_ 
Mean 306.46 
Z “ -j- 1.03 
307*49 
Stars on the meridian, but variable refraction troublesome. 
