Beschreibung:

2 gelatin silver prints of images taken of the comet in 1908 at the Royal Observatory in Greenwich, each approximately 200 x 150 mm, inscribed in ink on verso "Comet 1908 III (Morehouse)" with dates and time annotations indicating November 19th and November 25th, and each marked "Royal Obs. Greenwich." Brown toned, slight wear to corners, paper browned. Morehouse comet was discovered on September 1, 1908 by Daniel Walter Morehouse, an Astronomer at Drake University in Iowa. It was unusual for its bright, rapidly varying tail, which was found to contain high concentrations of a molecular isotope of Carbon Monoxide. A non-periodic comet, Morehouse is not expected to be visible from Earth again for millions of years.