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I HAVE received this morning, from the Observatory of Pulkowa, copies of Dr. von Asten's ephemeris of this comet, in which the accurate effect of planetary perturbation to the approaching perihelion passage (about April 13.0 Greenwich time) is included. His positions differ less than five minutes of arc from those I have already communicated. The comet arrives at its least distance from the earth on the night of May 3, about which time it may be a bright object for the observatories of the southern hemisphere. In these latitudes it will probably be observed, as in 1842, to the end of the first week in April. If not detected during the next period of absence of moonlight, as I believe to be probable, there can be no doubt of its visibility before the February moon interferes.
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HIND, J. Encke's Comet . Nature 11, 169 (1874). https://doi.org/10.1038/011169a0
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