Cometography: A Catalog of Comets. 1933-1959. Volume 4

1.0 ABSOLUTE MAGNITUDE 1P/Halley A. G. Pingré ABSOLUTE MAGNITUDE April August bright broom star Calculated path Ch'ing shih Charles Messier Chin shu 635 Chinese text Chronicle Chronicon coma Coma Berenices comet appeared comet reached comet was seen computed date and location December February FULL MOON G. F. Chambers Hasegawa Ho Peng Yoke Hou Han shu hsien t'ung k'ao Hsin T'ang shu Hsü Wen hsien indicates the comet J. R. Hind January July June Korean text Koryo-sa last detected Last seen location indicate March maximum solar Méchain Messier Ming shih 1739 minimum solar elongation month morning sky naked eye Nihon Temmon Shiryo November nucleus object observed the comet October parabolic orbit Peng Yoke 1962 perihelion date reported S. K. Vsekhsvyatskij 1964 Samguk Sagi Samguk Sagi 1145 saw the comet says a broom September shih kao SOURCES sparkling star t'ung k'ao 18th telescope Temmon Shiryo 1935 Tian-Se Werner Landgraf Williams