Spectrum of Brorsen's Comet

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May 1879

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Nature, Volume 20, Issue 499, pp. 75 (1879).

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I HAVE to thank Dr. Marshall Watts for having called attention to a point of some interest with regard to the spectra of comets, viz., which of the carbon spectra agrees with the cometary spectrum? In the case of Brorsen's comet the most important question was, whether the spectrum differed largely from that of other comets, as found by Dr. Huggins in 1868, and not having much leisure at the time of writing to examine the question of the different spectra of carbon, I overlooked the circumstance that the comparison spectrum used by Prof. Young was the first or flame spectrum of carbon. The difference, however, m the positions of the bands in the two spectra of carbon is a quantity which it is not very easy to answer for in the case of a faint cometary spectrum, and it is but a small fraction (less than one-fourth) of the discordance between Dr. Muggins's measures in 1868 and those made at the present return of the comet.

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