The Great Comet of 1881, as observed 142 years ago today on the night of June 25–26th. Plate XI from Étienne Léopold Trouvelot’s “Astronomical Drawings” (1882).
See more imagery of comets, meteors, meteorites and shooting stars through the ages at The Public Domain Review’s “Flowers of the Sky,” https://buff.ly/2M7wVjn
