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Description Comet C/1743 X1, The Great Comet of 1744, or "Comet de Cheseaux-Klinkenberg", at 4am on March 9, 1744, showing six tails rising above the horizon
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Source Amedee Guillemin, The World of Comets (London, 1877)
Author Amedee Guillemin, after Jean-Philippe de Cheseaux
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