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About nine years later, on 13 May 1861, Tebbutt discovered the 1861 comet, one of the most brilliant comets known. There was no means then of telegraphing the intelligence to
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In 1863 he built, with his own hands, a small observatory close to his father's residence, and installed his instruments consisting of his 3¼-inch telescope, a two-inch transit instrument, and an eight-day, one-half-second box-chronometer. Shortly before this period
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In 1845 Tebbutt's father purchased a tract of land at the eastern end of the town of
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