Great January Comet of 1910
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The Great January Comet of 1910, formally designated C/1910 A1 and often referred to as the Daylight Comet, was a comet that appeared in January 1910. It was already visible to the naked eye when it w
C/1910 A1, the Daylight or Great January Comet, photograph from Lowell Observatory
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Robert T. A. Innes
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Robert Thorburn Ayton Innes FRSE FRAS was a British-born South African astronomer best known for discovering Proxima Centauri in 1915, and numerous binary stars. He was also the first astronomer to ha
Great January Comet of 1910
…with a declination of −29 and so was best seen from the Southern Hemisphere. The first person to study the comet properly was the Scottish astronomer Robert T. A. Innes at the Transvaal Observatory in Johannesburg on 17 January after he had been alerted two days earlier by the editor of a Johannesburg newspaper. The…
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