The dim form of Uranus was better defined than I had previously seen it, but no marking of any kind was perceptible.
Rising from my second, or, so to speak, midday rest, and having busied myself for some little time with what I may call my household and garden duties, I observed the discometer at 1h.

(or 5 P.M.).

It indicated about two hundred terrestrial radii of elevation.

I had, of course, from the first been falling slightly behind the Earth in her orbital motion, and was no longer exactly in opposition; that is to say, a line drawn from the Astronaut to the Earth's centre was no longer a prolongation of that joining the centres of the Earth and Sun.

The effect of this divergence was now perceptible.