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51 photos and 44 illustrations tagged comet, from 7 members of Flickr Commons.

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• astronomy
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• date1866
• pubplaceparis
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• dehavillandcomet
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• sherlocknet:category=diagrams
• airplane
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• British Library 44 photos & illustrations
• SDASM Archives 37 photos & illustrations
• NASA on The Commons 5 photos & illustrations
• State Library of New South Wales 4 photos & illustrations
• State Library of Queensland 2 photos & illustrations
• Smithsonian Institution 2 photos & illustrations
• Museum of Photographic Arts 1 photo / illustration

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British Library digitised image from page 373 of "L'Espace céleste et la nature tropicale, description physique de l'univers ... préface de M. Babinet, dessins de Yan' Dargent"

from British Library

• astronomy_blog said:

  The caption reads "Tête de la comête grossie, 28 juin 1861". It shows the head of a comet with out-gassing.

British Library digitised image from page 301 of "L'Espace céleste et la nature tropicale, description physique de l'univers ... préface de M. Babinet, dessins de Yan' Dargent"

from British Library

• astronomy_blog said:

  This shows an image of the Great Comet of 1861 (formally designated C/1861 J1).

Spectators on the lawn of Government House view the arrival of the first Royal Australian Navy, Sydney, Oct 1913

from State Library of New South Wales

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• Thomas Bresson said:

  Your photo is uploaded here :
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  Seen on your photo stream. (?)

• Better Knot said:

  wonderful to see this area from this viwing angle, I have had the pleasure being stationed at government house in 2003 and i have been involved in vice regal functions and knowing it intimately then seeing this is so amazing one can almost picture oneslef in the day so long ago

• Jane Eleanor said:

  great composition. I love the clothes.