Great Comet of 1811

Flaugergues comet, C/1811 F1 or also called Great Comet of 1811, was a great comet was about 260 days to see with the naked eye in the sky.

In October 1811, when it was at its brightest, it reached approximately the zero size class, with a visible coma. The coma of the comet was even larger than the sun. In December 1811 one of the two tails of the comet was more than 60 degrees long.

Among many aspects of this comet resembled the comet Hale- Bopp. He was spectacular, though he still was not particularly close to the sun to the earth approach, but he had an extremely large and active nucleus. Flaugergues was named after its discoverer Honoré Flaugergues who spotted this on March 25, 1811. The discovery was confirmed by Jean -Louis Pons and Franz Xaver von Zach in April.

The observations were until June until the comet was too close to the sun. He was rediscovered in August 5th magnitude. The comet became brighter as he approached perihelion in September and had the least distance to Earth at 1.1 astronomical units.

The comet was visible for 9 months with the naked eye, a record until the comet Hale- Bopp.

The Russian writer Leo Tolstoy processed the comet Flaugergues literary in his book War and Peace. Approximately in the middle of the work, he described how the person Pierre observed the comet.