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COMET COMAS SOLA.—This comet is 1926 f, being the sixth to be detected during the year; but four of the six, also Neujmin's .Comet, 1926 g, were periodic comets observed on their return to perihelion. Mr. G. Merton has photographed the new comet on two nights, and Mr. B. M. Peek sends the following notes on its physical appearance. With a 12-inch mirror, power 200, the diameter of the nebulosity is 1′ using averted vision. Direct vision shows a coma of 15″ diameter, and a stellar nucleus of 12 mag., the total light being fully II mag.
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Our Astronomical Column. Nature 118, 745 (1926). https://doi.org/10.1038/118745a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/118745a0