Comet Borelly and the Isaac Roberts Cooke

 

Discovered on the 21^st July 1903 by M Borelly at the Marseilles Observatory the comet would become an easy naked eye object at magnitude 2.5 it was observed until August 24^th when it became too close to the Sun to be seen.

Isaac Roberts at Crowborough, photographed the comet  using his 5 inch Cooke telescope .

During the time the comet was in the sky the weather was poor and when the weather was clear the Moon was near full making photography difficult. That sounds a bit like the weather today!