X. A letter from Mr. Alexander Brice, to the Earl of Morton, President of the R. S. giving an account of a comet seen by him | Zendy

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X. A letter from Mr. Alexander Brice, to the Earl of Morton, President of the R. S. giving an account of a comet seen by him

Author(s) -

Alexander Brice

Publication year - 1766

Publication title -

philosophical transactions of the royal society of london

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

eISSN - 2053-9223

pISSN - 0261-0523

DOI - 10.1098/rstl.1766.0010

Subject(s) - comet , physics , art , astronomy , art history

My Lord; I beg leave by this, to acquaint your lordship, that, last night and the night before, I observed a comet in the northwest, and very near the horizon. It began to appear at half an hour after 8 o'clock, and set 25 minutes after 9. The tail was very visible to the naked eye; but the nucleus could not be seen by any, that were present with me, without a telescope, thro' which it appeared very distinctly, like a star of the 4th or 5th magnitude.

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