WELLINGTON CITY OBSERVATORY.
Some idet of the power o£ the 9in telescope at the Wellington City Observatory was given to visitors last Saturday evening. Stars which appeared to the naked eye as single points of light were found to be really double stars. Again, hazy, faint-looking stars were found to be in some eases really beautiful globular or scattered clusters of stars. The best known of these, the Jewel Casket, consisted of coloured stars. There were also fine clusters shown by the telescope, no trace of which could be seen at all by the eye, and finally ;i faint object in the Scorpion which was so distant that it appeared as a hazy blob. The Milk Way was shown to consist of hundreds of thousands of faint stars. Saturn, the ringed planet, also claimed the attention of the visitors. The Observatory will be again open to the public to-morrow evening from 7..'50 to 0 o'clock, and the telescope used to view the moon if the sky is not overcast. The Observatory is accessible by means of the Kelburn cable car. A small charge is made for admission.
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Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 45, 21 August 1931, Page 3
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