Abstract
NEW COMET.—A telegram from Kiel announces the observation of Comet Giacobini on September 4 last, at 8h. 44m. Nice mean time. Its position was then R.A. = 17h. 10m. 30s., Declination = -7° 29′. The given movement per day is 1˙8m. in R.A. and 0′˙25 in declination, so that the comet should be looked for soon after sunset, the above position being about 22° due south of α Herculis, making also a very obtuse isosceles triangle with ζ and v Ophiuchi. Another telegram gives particulars of a second observation of Comet Giacobini at Nice, on September 6, 8h. 26˙5m. Its position as observed was R.A. = 17h. 14m. 16s.; Declination = - 7° 49′. The comet is noted as very feeble.
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