T W Backhouse, two comets and a Cooke telescope in 1892

On the 27^th September 1892 about 15hrs 30 mins GMT comet Brooks (c1892) had a tail 10 degrees long, pointing at an angle of 280 degrees this was observed with his 4.5 inch Thomas Cooke telescope

 At the later part of September Swift’s comet (a1892) was still a conspicuous object seen with the  4.5 inch Cooke telescope. Observations on several nights showed that it not only has  a faint tail- at position angle 260 degrees on the 24^th September at 8hrs and 30 mins, when I observed it to be certainly 11 degrees long, and suspected it to 21 degrees- but that also there was an elongation nearly in the opposite direction.

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