A little ramble through 19th century astronomy - comet klinkerfues in 1854

Comet Klinkerfues 1854 was seen from the Whitehaven Observatory on the night of October 7^th 1854. The comet had been discovered by the German astronomer Ernest Klinkerfues on the night of September 12^th 1854 at the Berlin observatory. From Whitehaven it was described as looking like a round nebulous body without any appearance of a tail. The comet was seen in Ursa Major the Great Bear. 

There were very few observations of the comet and it is therefore classed as a near parabolic comet with no certainty when it will come close to the Sun next.

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