PLANET PHOTOGRAPHED
SUCCESS AT KELBURN , [PER press association.] WELLINGTON, January 24. What are believed to be the first two photographs taken in New Zealand of the minor planet Eros were obtained not long after midnight on Sunday, by two astronomical observers, R.’C. Hayes and I. L. Thomson, using a nine inch telescope at Kelburn Observatory. The planet is invisible to the naked eye. The first plate was exposed with the telescope and camera aimed at a tiny patch of the sky where the Eros was expected to be. The telescope was kept by mechanism pointing to exactly the same small region of the heavens and at the end of the hour, an-1 other plate was exposed. The two plates, when developed, gave a striking comparison. The “fixed” stars on the patch of sky which had been photographed, were in identical positions, and furnished a frame of reference on both plates, but one body which was photographed clearly on both plates, had moved during the interval and calculations established that the moving body was Eros. The Kelburn Observatory is taking part in a world campaign with the object of tracing the course of the planet, telescopically and photographically.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 24 January 1931, Page 2
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