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A NEW COMET.—M. Bigourdan communicates to the Comptes rendus for October 27 (vol. clix., No. 17) the substance of a telegram received from M. Comàs Solà, director of the Fabra Observatory, Barcelona, recording the discovery of a comet in a region of the sky recently occupied by Encke'S comet. Its position on October 25 at i6h. mean Barcelona time is given approximately as R.A. iih. 27m., and declination + 50° 36′, and the movement is in a south-south-east direction at the rate of 50 a day. The comet is stated to be visible with a pair of opera-glasses.
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Our Astronomical Column . Nature 94, 262–263 (1914). https://doi.org/10.1038/094262a0
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