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...message received at the University Observatory from the Reverend Joel H. Metcalf of Portland, Maine, announces the discovery of a comet by him on May 7 in the constellation Opiuchi, near the star Alpha Opiuchi. The comet was of 9th magnitude, much too faint to be seen without a telescope, and was moving slowly. It appeared round and brighter on the southwest side...
...College Observatory has received word by cable of the discovery of a comet by Skjellerup, the South African astronomer, at Cape Town on November 26. The comet was described as faint, and the position given was in the constellation of Crater...
Telescopic photographs taken at the University after the receipt of the cablegram show the comet to be brighter than Baade's comet, which was recently discovered, and to be moving more rapidly. It is going southeast at the rate of between three and four diameters of the moon per day. At present it is of the seventh magnitude; somewhat too faint, to be seen with the naked...
...comet has been discovered by the astronomer Baade of Hamburg, Germany, according to a cablegram received by the University Observatory from Copenhagen. The discovery was made last Thursday, October 19, and the comet was subsequently observed on Sunday by the Danish astronomer Stroemgren at Copenhagen...
...comet was reported to be in the constellation Cygnus. It was much too faint to be seen without a telescope. During the interval between Thursday and Sunday, however, it was reported to have increased in brightness from magnitude 11.5 to magnitude...