Displacement of spectral lines in the late comet

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1883
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 58 KB
• Volume: 116
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0016-0032
• DOI: 10.1016/0016-0032(83)90153-9

✦ Synopsis

Tail of the Great Comet of 1882.--Terby, in concluding the report of his observations upon the aspect and positions of the last great comet, concurs ill tile opinion of Cruls, that the appearances may be explained upon the hypothesis of a triple tail, of whieh the three elements were almost wholly supcrposed ill September, and were gradu'dly unfolded befi~re terrestrial observers during the months0f October and November. One of these tails was directed ahnost exaeth. in the line of the prolonged radius vector, as in tile case of Donati's comet. The others were more eurved.--Bu/, de l'Aead, de Be(q,