, Comet of the Sun, a phenomenon sometimes observed at the setting of the sun; thus denominated by Sturmius and Pylen, who had seen it, because it seems to make a comet of the sun, being a large tail, or column of light, fixed or hung to that luminary, and dragging after it, at its setting, like the tail of a comet.
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Entry taken from A Mathematical and Philosophical Dictionary, by Charles Hutton, 1796.
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