A popular history of astronomy during the nineteenth century (1902)
Clerke, Agnes M. (Agnes Mary), 1842-1907 · London : A. and C. Black · leaf 387
e suns surface. Nevertheless it had nosooner touched it than it vanished as if annihilated. So suddenwas the disappearance (at 4h. 50m. 58s., Cape mean time), that thecomet was at first believed to have passed behind the sun. But thisproved not to have been the case. The observers at the Cape… … The Gueat Comet of September, 1882.Photographed at the Royal Observatory, Cape of Good Hope. CHAP. XI RECENT COMETS 359 by equality of lustre. For the gradations of light on the suns discare amply sufficient to bring out against the dusky background ofthe limb any object matching the brilliancy of…
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