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In this note, I look into the record of a comet in the writings of an 18th century Indian historian Sayyid Muhammad 'Alī al-Husaini, that he says appeared in 1154 AH (1741-42). No astronomical detail of the observation is given. The circumstances suggest him to be an independent discoverer of the bright comet of 1742, now designated C/1742 C1.
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