The Comets: A Descriptive Treatise Upon Those Bodies. With a Condensed Account of the Numerous Modern Discoveries Respecting Them; and a Table of All the Calculated Comets, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time |
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... Bessel , Sir John Herschel , and Professor Struve . The latter compares the appearance of the nucleus , about the end of the first week in October , to a fan - shaped flame , emanating from a bright point , and subsequently to a red ...
... Bessel , Sir John Herschel , and Professor Struve . The latter compares the appearance of the nucleus , about the end of the first week in October , to a fan - shaped flame , emanating from a bright point , and subsequently to a red ...
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... Bessel's Memoir in the Connaissance des Temps for 1839 , the Southern Observations of Sir John Herschel , and to the Memoirs of the Astronomical Society , Vol . X. , which contains several excellent drawings by Professor C. P. Smyth ...
... Bessel's Memoir in the Connaissance des Temps for 1839 , the Southern Observations of Sir John Herschel , and to the Memoirs of the Astronomical Society , Vol . X. , which contains several excellent drawings by Professor C. P. Smyth ...
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... Bessel and Gauss . M. Pons , of Marseilles , a most industrious observer , detected a telescopic comet on the 26th of November , 1818 , which remained visible till the 12th of January following . It was speedily found that no parabolic ...
... Bessel and Gauss . M. Pons , of Marseilles , a most industrious observer , detected a telescopic comet on the 26th of November , 1818 , which remained visible till the 12th of January following . It was speedily found that no parabolic ...
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... Bessel , which appeared to throw a degree of uncertainty on this conclusion , as respects the former year : but as we have already remarked , the comet of 1772 was very imperfectly observed , and was only followed by M. Montaigne during ...
... Bessel , which appeared to throw a degree of uncertainty on this conclusion , as respects the former year : but as we have already remarked , the comet of 1772 was very imperfectly observed , and was only followed by M. Montaigne during ...
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... that active astronomer on the 6th of March , 1815 , and observed till the end of August . The periodic time has been well determined by the late Professor Bessel , who finds that the comet will again arrive at perihelion in 96 THE COMETS .
... that active astronomer on the 6th of March , 1815 , and observed till the end of August . The periodic time has been well determined by the late Professor Bessel , who finds that the comet will again arrive at perihelion in 96 THE COMETS .
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amongst the stars Aphelion appearance April arrival at perihelion astronomers August Author axis Berlin Biela bodies Bouvard bright Brorsen Burckhardt calculated Cambridge century Chinese observations Clausen Collegio Romano comet discovered comet observed Comet of Encke comet of Halley comet was observed computed constellation D'Arrest December detected diameter Discovered by Pons earth elements epoch exhibited February Gambart grand comet Greenwich Mean Halley's comet heavens Herschel Hevelius Hind History identity Isle of Bourbon January John Herschel July June Jupiter Königsberg Laugier least distance length Lexell March Marseilles Mechain miles month motion naked eye nebulosity November nucleus numbers observatory observed in Europe Octavo October Olbers Ophiuchus parabolic Paris path perihelion distance perihelion passage period of revolution periodical comet perturbations Peter Apian Pingré planetary probable Professor Encke right ascension Rome Rümker Second Edition Sept September Struve sun's tail tions Tycho Brahe Ursa Major Verrier Vico