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BRORSEN'S COMET.—Notwithstanding the track of this comet at the present appearance is a very favourable one for observation in these latitudes during April and May, the theoretical intensity of light at maximum is much less than that attaching to the first appearance in: 1846; indeed, in the middle of April, when it; is greatest, at is only half that of the middle of March 14, 1846. If cornet in that year was never a conspicuous object in ordinary telescopes; it approached pretty near to the earth, and on March 25 its apparent diameter was about 9′ corresponding-to a true diameter of 1.26,000 miles.
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Our Astronomical Column. Nature 19, 420–421 (1879). https://doi.org/10.1038/019420a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/019420a0