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I SUCCEEDED in photographing the comet in Auriga on Friday night, June 24. Since then I have taken several photographs of it. One made last night with an exposure of 2 hours 42 minutes shows the tail about 10° long. There are many stars on the plate, some shining through the tail.
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DRAPER, H. [Letters to Editor]. Nature 24, 236 (1881). https://doi.org/10.1038/024236c0
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