The Comets: A Descriptive Treatise Upon Those Bodies. With a Condensed Account of the Numerous Modern Discoveries Respecting Them; and a Table of All the Calculated Comets, from the Earliest Ages to the Present TimeJ.N. Parker and son, 1852 - 184 oldal |
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... , fade away even in the most powerful instruments we possess , before they have attained anything like a distance equal to the diameter of the earth's orbit . Amongst those comets which have continued longest in sight , 4 THE COMETS .
... , fade away even in the most powerful instruments we possess , before they have attained anything like a distance equal to the diameter of the earth's orbit . Amongst those comets which have continued longest in sight , 4 THE COMETS .
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... equal to the moon in apparent size . Others , like that of 1744 , are bright and dazzling . The head of the fine comet of December 1618 , is said to have been composed of several bright points or nuclei : Cysat observed three or four on ...
... equal to the moon in apparent size . Others , like that of 1744 , are bright and dazzling . The head of the fine comet of December 1618 , is said to have been composed of several bright points or nuclei : Cysat observed three or four on ...
12. oldal
... equal length . That of 390 , observed in Europe and China , is said to have had a train of the enormous length of 100 ° . The grand comet of 837 , mentioned by nearly all the historians of the time , was remarkable for the length of its ...
... equal length . That of 390 , observed in Europe and China , is said to have had a train of the enormous length of 100 ° . The grand comet of 837 , mentioned by nearly all the historians of the time , was remarkable for the length of its ...
13. oldal
... equal mag- nitude . The comet of 1769 was attended by a long and conspicuous tail , but observers differ considerably in their estimations of its apparent length , even on the same day , which can only be attributed to the state of our ...
... equal mag- nitude . The comet of 1769 was attended by a long and conspicuous tail , but observers differ considerably in their estimations of its apparent length , even on the same day , which can only be attributed to the state of our ...
18. oldal
... equal to that of the earth . On the 24th of January , 1836 , Mr. Maclear , at the Cape of Good Hope , saw a well - defined disk within the head of the comet of Halley , which , from the apparent diameter assigned , could not have been ...
... equal to that of the earth . On the 24th of January , 1836 , Mr. Maclear , at the Cape of Good Hope , saw a well - defined disk within the head of the comet of Halley , which , from the apparent diameter assigned , could not have been ...
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amongst the stars Aphelion appearance April arrival at perihelion astronomers August Author axis Berlin Biela bodies Bouvard bright Brorsen Burckhardt calculated Cambridge century Chinese observations Clausen Collegio Romano comet discovered comet observed Comet of Encke comet of Halley comet was observed computed constellation D'Arrest December detected diameter Discovered by Pons earth elements epoch exhibited February Gambart grand comet Greenwich Mean Halley's comet heavens Herschel Hevelius Hind History identity Isle of Bourbon January John Herschel July June Jupiter Königsberg Laugier length Lexell March Marseilles Mechain miles month motion naked eye nebulosity November nucleus numbers observatory observed in Europe Octavo October Olbers Ophiuchus parabolic Paris path perihelion distance perihelion passage period of revolution periodical comet perturbations Peter Apian Pingré planetary probable Professor Encke remarkable comet right ascension Rome Rümker Second Edition Sept September Struve sun's tail tions Tycho Brahe Ursa Major Verrier Vico
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