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COMET 1882 b.—A number of very beautiful photographs of the great comet have been received from Mr. Gill during the past week. Several of them are remarkable for the amount of delicate detail that is brought out. Mr. Gill writes: “These photographs are interesting, not only as pictures of the comet, but they appear to me to show the possibility of making, with very little labour, a photographic Durchmusterung of the heavens.” One of them taken on November 8 was exposed two hours, and shows all the 8th magnitude stars and the curious envelope extending 4° or 5° beyond the nucleus. This envelope was barely visible either to the naked eye or in the telescope.
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OUR ASTRONOMICAL COLUMN . Nature 27, 161 (1882). https://doi.org/10.1038/027161a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/027161a0