A text-book of general astronomy : for colleges and scientific schools (1888)
Young, Charles A. (Charles Augustus), 1834-1908 · Boston ; London : Ginn & Company · leaf 439
difficult to fix upon the precise point tobe observed in determining the comets position. When the nucleus first broke up in this way, the dark stripe behindit was still conspicuous, making, however, a slight angle with the lineof nuclei. A bright streak followed the line of nuclei, and in a… … Oct. 9. Oct. 15. Fig. 207. —The Head of the Great Comet of 1882. represents the telescopic appearance at Princeton on Oct. 9 and 15.The comet continued to be visible with the telescope until it wasmore than 470,000000 miles from the earth, a distance to which noother such object has ever been…
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