X/1106 C1

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X/1106 C1, also known as the Great Comet of 1106, was seen in Wales as well as Japan, Korea, China and Europe. Much is still unknown about this comet. It was seen^{[citation needed]} to have split in two, possibly forming the Great Comet of 1882, Comet Ikeya-Seki and SOHO-620. It is a member of the Kreutz Group, as Subfragment I, split from an earlier comet.

It appeared on February 2, 1106 The comet was observed from the beginning of February through to mid-March.

1 Mentions in literature
- 1.1 Others
2 Resources
3 Sources

[edit] Mentions in literature

A brief note in the Welsh manuscript known as the Brut y Tywysogion (translated) reads:

[-1106]. In that year there was seen a star wonderful to behold, throwing out behind it a beam of light of the thickness of a pillar in size and of exceeding brightness, foreboding what would come to pass in the future: for Henry, emperor of Rome, after mighty victories and a most pious life in Christ, went to his rest. And his son, after winning the seat of the empire of Rome, was made emperor.

The 1106 annal of The Peterborough Chronicle describes the comet. The Dorothy Whitlock translation reads:

In the first week of Lent, on the Friday, 16 February, in the evening, there appeared an unusual star, and for a long time after that it was seen shining a while every evening. This star appeared in the south-west; it seemed small and dark. The ray that shone from it, however, was very bright, and seemed to be like an immense beam shining north-east; and one evening it appeared as if this beam were forking into many rays toward the star from an oposite direction.

Sigebert of Gembloux mentions it in his Chronicon sive Chronographia (pub. 1111).

[edit] Others

De Significatione Cometarum
Dainihonshi (1715)
Wen hsien t'ung k'ao (1308)
Sung shih (1345)
Hsü Thung Chien Kang Mu (1476)
Historia Hierosolymitana

[edit] Resources

Thomas Jones, Brut y Tywysogion, or, the Chronicle of the Princes: Red Book of Hergest version, University of Wales Press, Cardiff, 1955.
Comet X/1106 C1: Publication der Sternwarte in Kiel, No. 6, pp. 1-66, and AN 238 (1930 Jun 5), pp. 403-4