NEW COMET.
OBSERVED FROM OTAGO.
VERY MINUTE OBJECT.
(By Tclcgrnph.—Press Association.)
WELLINGTON, Thursday
Advice was received to-day by the Government astronomer, Dr. C. E. Adams, of the discovery by Mr. Geddcs, a well-known observer in Otekura, Otago, of a new comet.
It was first observed yesterday, and its position is given as 0 hours 15 minutes ascension, decreasing, and 84 degrees 30 minutes declination, decreasing. Its magnitude is ten, with a blighter nucleus.
Professor F. W. Burbidgc, of Auckland University College, and presidents the Auckland Astronomical Society, to-day that a comet of magnitude ten was an exceedingly minute object and would not be visible to the naked eye, or even through the ordinary astronomical telescope. An instrument ten or twelve inches in diameter would be needed. The record might have been taken by photographic means. The position given was toward the South Pole.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXIII, Issue 148, 24 June 1932, Page 3
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