Stars and telescopes; a hand-book of popular astronomy, founded on the 9th ed. of Lynn's Celestial motions (1899)
Todd, David P. (David Peck), 1855-1939, Lynn, William Thynne, 1835-1911. Celestial motions · Boston, Little, Brown and company · leaf 260
ny require several thousandyears to complete a wholerevolution, and they areobservable for so small aproportion of their wholecourse that its length can-not be determined withaccuracy. The revolutionof the great comet of1858 (known as Do-nates) is accomplishedin about 2,000 years ;the splendid… … DONATlS COMET (1858VI) {Drawn by G P. Bond, $th Octo-ber. The bright object near thecomet1 s head is Arcturus, over whichthe comet passed the following- day,withorit appreciably dimming thestars light) an orbit of more than comet; also, on the Indian photographs of the total eclipse of12th December…
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