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I OBSERVED Brorsen's comet, about 8h. on March 29, through a whitish haze that extinguished the small stars near it. It appeared about the seventh magnitude, by estimation 3′ in diameter, its light very much condensed in the centre and approximately circular.
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TUPMAN, G. Brorsen's Comet. Nature 19, 527 (1879). https://doi.org/10.1038/019527b0
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