Unpublished paper, 'Account of an extraordinary luminous presence in the heavens seen at Athboy in Ireland on the 21st March 1833' by Lord Darnley [Edward Bligh]
Reference number: AP/17/3
Date: 28 March 1833
Description
Bligh, fifth Earl of Darnley, writes of a 'luminous presence', at times described as a meteor or 'enormous comet', observed at Clifton Lodge. Includes one diagram separate to the text. With accompanying letter from Darnley to J G [John George] Children.
Subject: Astronomy
Written by Bligh at Clifton Lodge, Athboy [Ireland].
Whilst the Royal Society declined to publish this paper in full, an abstract of the paper was published in volume 3 of Abstracts of the Papers Printed in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London [later Proceedings of the Royal Society] as 'An account of an extraordinary luminous appearance in the heavens, seen at athboy in Ireland, on the 21st of March, 1833'.
- Reference number
- AP/17/3
- Earliest possible date
- 28 March 1833
- Physical description
- Ink on paper
- Page extent
- 6 pages
- Format
- Manuscript
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Edward Bligh, Unpublished paper, 'Account of an extraordinary luminous presence in the heavens seen at Athboy in Ireland on the 21st March 1833' by Lord Darnley [Edward Bligh], 28 March 1833, AP/17/3, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/ap_17_3/unpublished-paper-account-of-an-extraordinary-luminous-presence-in-the-heavens-seen-at-athboy-in-ireland-on-the-21st-march-1833-by-lord-darnley-edward-bligh, accessed on 12 November 2025
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An account of an extraordinary luminous appearance in the heavens, seen at athboy in Ireland, on the 21st of March, 1833 External link, opens in new tab.
Date: 31st December 1837
DOI: 10.1098/rspl.1830.0106
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Archived papers: volume 17, scientific papers submitted the Royal Society unpublished or abstracted, 1832-1833
1833 Reference number: AP/17
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