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10. Decimation and Meridional Passage Ceres. — TLhe fol- 
lowing are the declinations and times of passing the meridian of 
Ceres at Berlin, 55' East of Greenwich : 
Declination. 
Passage of Meridian. 
1822, Jan. 1. 
26“ V 
Oh 19m p. ]VL 
Feb. 1. 
24 54 
11 1 A. M. 
Mar. 1. 
23 12 
9 58 
Apr. 1. 
21 8 
1 50 
May 1. 
19 28 
7 38 
June 1. 
18 56 
6 4 
July 1. 
20 6 
4 13 
Aug. 1. 
23 17 
2 2 
Sept. 1. 
26 30 
11 37 P. M. 
Oct. 1. 
27 8 
9 29 
Nov. 1. 
25 15 
7 34 
Dec. 1. 
21 48 
5 49 
Bode’s Jahrh. 1822. 
1. New Comet of 1822. — On the 14th May, M. Pons of 
the Observatory of La Marlia, near Lucca, discovered a comet 
near the horizon in the north-west, at 9^ 15'. It was then in 
Auriga. It resembles a star of the 4th magnitude, and is dis- 
tinctly visible to the naked eye. 
12. Visibility of the Planet Venus — This planet passed the 
point of its inferior conjunction with the sun,, when its dark 
hemisphere is completely turned towards the earth, on the 10th 
current, at half past one o’clock in the morning ; and, having 
now arrived to the westward of the sun, has, of course, disap- 
peared from our evening sky. Its crescent was distinctly seen 
on the afternoon of Thursday the 7th March, only two days 
and twelve hours prior to the moment of conjunction, by Mr 
T. Dick of this city, wlio has made a variety of observations on 
this planet, in the day time. Cloudy weather prevented obser- 
vations on the two following days, otherwise it might have been 
perceived in a position much nearer to the sun. On Monday 
last, the 11th current, at SO minutes past 12 noon, being only 
35 hours after the planet had passed the point of conjunction, 
its crescent on the opposite hemisphere was again distinctly per- 
ceived, by the same observer, by means of an Equatorial Tele- 
scope, magnifying about seventy times. It appeared extremely 
slender but distinct, and well defined, and apparently of a lar- 
• See this JournaZ, Vol. III. p. 191. 
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