The Comet during the Last Month

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Dec 1882

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1882natur..27..198w&link_type=abstract

Nature, Volume 27, Issue 687, pp. 198 (1882).

Physics

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SINCE my last communication (see NATURE, vol. xxvii. p. 110) the weather and the presence of moonshine has been unfavourable for views of the comet; but I have seen it, more or less distinctly, on seven nights, from November 22 to December 21. I will not take up your space with details, but mention, as the general result of these observations, that the comet has become smaller in dimensions, and much fainter in its light. With moonlight, no trace of a tail is visible; and the nucleus can only be discerned by telescope as a nebulous star of third magnitude. In absence of moonlight, as on December 6, 8, and 12, between 2 and 3.30 a.m., the tail was visible to a length of about 10°, with a breadth expanding from the head, with no distinguishable outline. My last view of it was on the 20th, at 3 a.m., when, with a brilliant starlight after moonset, the comet was in the south-south-east, about 20° above the horizon, with a tail about 8° long, and a nucleus, a nebulous star of third or second magnitude. Its position was about as far to the east-north-east of Procyon as that star is east-south-east of Sirius. It seems likely to be visible in clear moonless nights for two or three weeks longer.

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