Bellevue gazette. [volume] (Bellevue City, N.T. [i.e. Neb.]) 1856-1858, 1857-07-02
MISCELLANEOUS
The Ncv Prriodica, Comet.


The New Prriodicai Comet.
BY ave assistance OF e.. W. Tuuic Esq.,
lato ass tbnl n the pstronomiCNl Obser,u-
tory " lhnnrd University, now resident
IA this city, we were utlo t0 sec this comet
ON Friday lat, with Mr.. Greenough's
" r0nalic telescope, Notwithstanding the
lrahan,y of tue full moon and the strong
twilight prevailing ut that time. 1t was
moro satisfactorily seen on Saturday
night, with the somc lnslrumcli. AT
that tune i, WIS on the confines of the
,lrcumpolar constellation Cunclcoparl,
near Ursa Major, II exhibited u round,
nebulons mass Of light slightly conrenlra-
I'D, q about two minutes Of arc la du-
meter. It's excessive talntncsS on both
occasions was owing 10 the united effects
vf the full moon and strong twilight
There beiag no known star within the
reach Of the auuular mireomctcr, its Pc.
si,ion could oaly approximately be deter.
minCd.
At oar request, Mr.. Tulile has furnish
cd Us with the following particulars con-
corning the comet;
This comet is onn recently add,d.io
tina, last of periodical comets of a short
period, embracing Enoke's, Biel IS, Faye's
and d. Nico's. II was first discovered
10y Mr.. Brorscn, whose name IL hears, at
kicl, on the 10Th of February, 1916. He
describes 1t as very faint, aud though it
remained visible a very long time in the
telescope, it never became So to the naked
eye, 1t passed It's perihelion'on the 9jth
IT February, lSl7, almost a year after
its discovery Astronomers soon found
that no paraboliC elements would satisfy
the observations, and belook themselves
10 elliptic elements, which were foutd to
represent n path through the heavens,
corresponding with the observed one.
Dr. Bunow Hind and Deliaun, were
the most succ ssful ia computing the chp.
tic elemeuis. Their period, however.
was a lNle short Of the actual one which
has taken piece; but il will be reco!lected
tha, no account OF planetary perturbation
was considered by them. Its return was
anticipated by astronomers, and DR.. Bru.
hps, a German astronomer, guided by an
cphermis, detected it on one NIGHT of last
March, % or near Aries. 1t was also
independently detected at Harvard Ohscr-
valory, The comet was Fastening to its
perihelion when first seen, and reached
it Oh The 29lh of March, having made a
complete togr round the sun in ten years
and ono mouth.
The clements If this comet resemble
those Of the comets of 1892 aud 1851,
and il they are Identical, then this comet
has continued TO revolye round the sun
oaee IN every ten years since, unseen by
human eye al the 26ih Of February, 1916,
when il, was discovered by Bronson. The
Dimensions Of its orbit are now well us
certained. Its aphelion is beyond the or.
bit OF Jupiter by more than 36, 000, 600
Of mics. At its perihehon il wa iust
within The orbit of Venus. The comets
geocentric motion al this time, is mostly
IN right ascension, being upwards of if.
teen minutes Of time daily from West to
East. On the 23dinst. it will be near the
bright star Bad GrSae .lEljoriis. 1t was
ncaSt-t the earth Oh the 18Th inst, being
Then about 20,O00,000 of miles distant.
Ii is now recedine from US, and will not
lie visible to the naked eye during its
present apparition. This is the comet the
Europeaps announced would strike the
earth in June but in America it has
be9n COMPOUNDED with the great comet Of
Of 1866, which. has not yet appcared.-
The rltarn Of this comet, according 70
prediction may be regarded as another Of
The brilliant series of Astronomical tri-
umrhs.- ,Ncrbmyport Heroii.