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D'ARREST's COMET.—On April 4 a.m. this comet was reobserved by Dr. Hartwig with the 20-inch refractor of the Observatory of Straaburg, near the position indicated by the elements of M. Leveau of Paris. The observation is a notable one, having been made at the great interval of 285 days from the date of perihelion passage; no other comet of short period has been hitherto observed under such circumstances, indeed there is only one instance upon record where a comet has been observed further from perihelion passage, and this was in the case of the celebrated comet of 1811,which was in perihelion on Sept.12 in that year, and was followed by Wisniewsky till Aug. 17, 1812, or 309 days after its nearest approach to the sun. The great comet of 1861 was observed at Pulkuwa 284 days after perihelion.
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OUR ASTRONOMICAL COLUMN . Nature 27, 567 (1883). https://doi.org/10.1038/027567a0
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