The Recent Progress of Astronomy Especially in the United States
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It presented a distinct and most beautiful ap- pearance exhibiting a very white and bright nucleus, and a tail dividing near the nucleus into two separate branches. At Portland, Me. , Captain Clark measured the distance of the nucleus from the sun, the only meas- urement (with one exception) known to have been made in any part of the globe before the 3d of March. At 3h. 2m. 15s. , mean time, the distance of the sun's farthest limb from the nearest limb of the nucleus was 4 6' 16". In Mexico, La...t. 26 8' K, Long. 106 48' W. Of Green- wich, the comet was observed from nine in the morning until sunset, by Mr. Bowring, and the altitude of the comet repeatedly measured with a sextant. Professor Bianchi, of Modena, in Italy, writes that on the 28th of February, the comet was seen by numbers at Boulogne, Parma and Genoa. It is said also that Captain Bay, being at Conception, in South America, saw the comet on the 27th of Feb- THE GREAT COMET OF 1843. 123 ruary, east of the sun, distant about one sixth of his diam- eter.
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