Abstract
THE BRIGHT OBJECT OF AUGUST 7.—Astr. Nach. No. 5118 contains a further observation of this object made at Plauen, Vogtland, by the daughter of Prof. E. Kaiser and several others. It appeared like Vends at its greatest brilliancy, low in the evening sky shortly after sunset. Its position with regard to distant terrestrial objects was accurately noted. At G.M.T. 7h. 33m. its azimuth was 98° 22.6′ from south to west, and its apparent altitude 2° 35.9′ 2° 21.9′ corrected for refraction. Plauen is in N. lat. 50° 29′ 45″, long. E. Greenwich 12° 7′ 11″; Prof. M. Wolf deduces that the R.A. of the body was 11h. 67m., N. decl, 7° 9′. This gives longitude 165.0°, N. lat. 1° 20′. It may be mentioned that the: place of Jupiter was R.A. 11h. 23.9 m., N. decl. 5° 6′, but it does not seem possible that this, could have been the body observed.
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