Donati's Comet, 10 October 1858 mb-width 5973 A group of people watch

A group of people watch from a hill as the cars pass on the road below

The house of a Mr Smith

The 'Recovery'

To the right is the threatening figure of Communism

Donati's Comet, 10 October 1858 mb-width 5973 A group of people watchAstronomical study of the head of Donati's Comet observed through the 15 inch refracting telescope at the observatory of Harvard College. Donati's Comet was one of the brightest to be seen in the 19th century and was the first to be photographed (by G. P. Bond and others). It was discovered by the Italian astronomer Giovanni Battista Donati (1826 1873). Plate 2 from the monograph An account of Donati's Comet of 1858, by George P. Bond (Cambridge,