OBSERVATIONS IN AUSTRALIA
RECORDS CABLED TO COPENHAGEN (N.Z. Press Association—Copyright) SYDNEY. December 10. The new comet blazing over the Southern Hemisphere is the brightest since Halley’s Comet of 1910. The director of the Commonwealth Observatory in Canberra last night cabled observations to Copenhagen to be included in international records. The eastern States of Australia first reported the comet early this week, but no confirmation was given until reports from all States and from South Africa had been correlated. Last night observer? in Victoria, Canberra, New South Wales, Queensland, 'and Western Australia sighted the comet in the western sky near the planet Venus. It glowed brilliantly with a reddishyellow light and had an incandescent wards' 011 extended vertically up-
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Press, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 25364, 11 December 1947, Page 6
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