Stars and telescopes; a hand-book of popular astronomy founded on the 9th ed. of Lynn's Celestial motions (1901)
Todd, David P. (David Peck), 1855-1939, Lynn, William Thynne, 1835-1911 · Boston, Little, Brown · leaf 232
esemble that of thePons-Brooks comet (page 188, Ay?); and a large proportion oftelescopic comets never develop beyond this simple stage. But,if the comet is a great one, on approaching nearer a nucleuswill begin to aggregate in that part of the hazy mass on thefarther side from the Sun ; from this… … THE GREAT COMET OF l86l head of the great comet of 1861 . . HIGHLY MAGNIFIED (sECCHl) (WILLIAMS) ( The tail is directed downward) separate parts of a fan, the handle of which is at the nucleusof the comet. This structure is well shown in the adjacent 184 Stars and Telescopes Of the periodic comets,…
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