Ueber den Sonnenfinsterniss-Cometen 1893 April 16

✍ Scribed by Edward S. Holden

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1894
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 127 KB
• Volume: 136
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0004-6337
• DOI: 10.1002/asna.18941361308

✦ Synopsis

relating to the discovery of a comet on the eclipse plates of the Lick Observatory (see Astronomy and Astro-Physics, April 1894, p. 307, for a description of it). This comet is to be found on the British plates in Brazil, and in Africa, and its position has been independently verified by Messrs. Schaeberle, Harnard, Campbell and myself. We have just received by the kindness of Professor E. C. Pickering, copies of the plates taken by the Harvard College Observatory Expedition, under the direction of Professor W ' . H. Pickering,