Cooke Telescope tales - comet Coggia observed with Newall telescope in 1874

On July 12^th 1874 Robert Newall and Norman Lockyer observed comet Coggia using the Thomas Cooke & Sons 25 inch telescope.  The observations were made at Newall’s observatory at Gateshead. The 25 inch was at the time the largest telescope in the world.

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