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...telegram has been received at the Observatory from Professor Schaeberle, at the Lick Observatory, stating that Dr. Perrine has just discovered a bright comet. The comet is 2m in diameter, of the seventh magnitude, has strong central condensation and has a tail one degree long...
...Harvard Observatory has received despatches from the Lick Observatory in California stating that C. D. Perine on Nov. 17 discovered a comet in the constellation Virgo. The comet has increased steadily in brightness being now of about the fourth magnitude. Being below the equator and travelling southward, it is rather unfavorably situated for observation. No observations have as yet been taken at the Observatory, but from the data at hand, it may be said, speaking roughly, that the comet can be seen a little before sunrise in the constellation Libra, several degrees northwest of the bright reddish star Autares...
Despatches from the Smith Observatory, Geneva, N. Y., announce the discovery by W. R. Brooks, on November 23, of another comet in the constellation Hydra. Its direction is northward...
...mutual consent of astronomers, the Kiel and Harvard Observatories have been selected as the centres for the prompt announcement of astronomical discoveries. For example, when a comet is discovered in America its position is telegraphed to this observatory, from here to Kiel, and thence to all the principal observatories of Europe...
...addition to the varied kinds of work which are regularly carried on at the Observatory, and about which most of us know so little, a good deal of attention has very lately been paid to the new comet. Although a large number of reports in regard to its probable course have appeared in the newspapers, few of them have any foundation. Its orbit is a very interesting mathematical puzzle. The observations taken here are now being worked upon and the results will be made known in a few days. The comet is almost directly overhead and can be seen with...