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THE NEW COMET.—Elements of the new comet calculated by Dr. Hartwig of Strasburg from observations to February 15 are almost identical with those given in this column last week. Observations have been made at Berlin, Copenhagen, Leipsic, Lund, Paris, and Strasburg. On the l6th the comet appeared to the unaided vision a little brighter than the well-known cluster in Hercules, and in the telescope presented itself as a round nebulosity, ten minutes in diameter, with a small central nucleus: this apparent measure corresponds to a real diameter of 77,000 miles.
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Our Astronomical Column . Nature 15, 381–382 (1877). https://doi.org/10.1038/015381a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/015381a0