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Document number: 3127
Date: 02 Sep 1835
Recipient: LUBBOCK John William
Author: TALBOT William Henry Fox
Collection: Royal Society, London
Collection number: LUB 38 T9
Last updated: 30th April 2012

Lacock Abbey
Sept. 2d 1835

My Dear Sir

I have found in the Hist. Céleste Française <1> p. 315 an observation of the star with which I compared the comet <2> on Aug. 27th and this has enabled me to give its place much more accurately, as follows

Aug 27. 14h Comet’s R.A. 5h 46′ 50″
D. 24° 17′ ½

I think this very near the truth –

I observed the comet again on Aug. 31st when it had not augmented in brightness, on the contrary I thought somewhat diminished. It has no nucleus or tail – I am much obliged by the communication of Dr Hussey’s <3> obsn of the 30th.

Believe me Yours vy Truly
H. F. Talbot


Notes:

1. Joseph Jérôme Le Française de Lalande (1732–1807), Histoire Céleste Française Contenant les Observations Faites par Plusieurs Astronomes Française (Paris: Imprimerie de la république, 1801).

2. Halley’s Comet.

3. Rev Thomas John Hussey (1792-1854), amateur astronomer, rector of Hayes, Kent.

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