* Discovery *
Ernst Wilhelm Liebrecht Tempel (Brera Observatory, Milan, Italy) discovered this comet on 1873 July 4.04 in Pisces. He simply described it as faint, with a slow southeastern motion. No observations were possible on the 4th, but Tempel again saw the comet on the 5th. He remarked that it was brighter than expected and exhibited a coma diameter of 5 arc minutes. |
2010年05月14日