Comet α 1888 (Sawerthal)

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Apr 1888

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1888natur..37..536b&link_type=abstract

Nature, Volume 37, Issue 962, pp. 536 (1888).

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I SAW comet Sawerthal to-day at 3.40 a.m., with power 20 on a 4¼-inch refractor. It was about 50' immediately below θ Pegasi, and had a bright broad tail, which I could only distinguish to a length of 65', on account of the twilight, moonlight, and the comet's low altitude. I thought the tail was slightly curved, concave to south; it pointed on the average to a little above ν Pegasi, or at a position-angle of about 260°. The total light of the head was considerably fainter than θ Pegasi, and considerably brighter than ν, so that it would be from 4 to 4½ mag.; but owing to the unfavourable conditions I could not see it with the naked eye.

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