| h. | m. | s. | R. A. | Declination. | |||||||||
| Sept. 23, | 12 | 0 | 14.6 M.T. | 328° | 19' | 16.0" | -13° | 24' | 8.2" | ||||
| Sept. 24, | 8 | 54 | 40.9 M.T. | 328° | 18' | 14.3" | -13° | 24' | 29.7" | ||||
The planet is now retrograde, its motion amounting daily to four seconds of time.
"Yours most respectfully, Brünnow."
"This discovery," Mr. Hind says, "may be justly considered one of the greatest triumphs of theoretical astronomy;" and he adds, in a postscript, that the planet was observed at Mr. Bishop's[[802]] Observatory, in the Regent's Park,
on Wednesday night, notwithstanding the moonlight and hazy sky. "It appears bright," he says, "and with a power of 320 I can see the disc. The following position is the result of instrumental comparisons with 33 Aquarii:
Sept. 30, at 8h. 16m. 21s. Greenwich mean time—
| Right ascension of planet | 21h. | 52m. | 47.15s. |
| South declination | 13° | 27' | 20"." |
THE NEW PLANET.
"Cambridge Observatory, Oct. 15.
"The allusion made by Sir John Herschel, in his letter contained in the Athenæum of October 3, to the theoretical researches of Mr. Adams, respecting the newly-discovered planet, has induced me to request that you would make the following communication public. It is right that I should first say that I have Mr. Adams's permission to make the statements that follow, so far as they relate to his labors. I do not propose to enter into a detail of the steps by which Mr. Adams was led, by his spontaneous and independent researches, to a conclusion that a planet must exist more distant than Uranus. The matter is of too great historical moment not to receive a more formal record than it would be proper to give here. My immediate object is to show, while the attention of the scientific public is more particularly directed to the subject, that, with respect to this remarkable discovery, English astronomers may lay claim to some merit.