约翰·赫帕斯
1831年大彗星
1831年1月7日,赫拉帕斯在豪恩斯洛荒原(Hounslow Heath)上看到了一顆彗星[1]。由於其亮度,它被認為是大彗星之一。馬德拉斯天文台的托馬斯·格蘭維爾·泰勒(Thomas Glanville Taylor)也觀察到了這顆彗星[2]。
參考資料
- J. Herapath (1831) Observations of the comet discovered by Mr. Herapath, at Cranford, January 1831, Memoirs of the Astronomical Society of London 4:626 via HathiTrust
- R. C. Kapoor (2011) Madras Observatory and the Discovery of C/1831 A1 (Great Comet of 1831), SAO/NASA ADS
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