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TMEPEL'S COMET, 1873, II.—Up to the time of writing it would appear that this comet has escaped detection. Even if there be no great error in the calculated position, its faintness must render discovery difficult in the summer skies, but it may be hoped nevertheless that a vigorous eftort will be made in the next period of absence of moonlight to recover the comet, as in the event of want of success in the present year, it will be probably lost, or in the same case as the short-period comet of De Vico of 1844, which, being missed at the second return in 1855, has not been again observed. M. Schulhof has communicated to the French Academy a further ephemeris of Tempel's comet, from which are extracted the places subjoined:—
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OUR ASTRONOMICAL COLUMN . Nature 18, 281 (1878). https://doi.org/10.1038/018281a0
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