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MELBOURNE’S BIG TELESCOPE. 3Y CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHI Received 11.20 a.m. to-day. MELBOURNE, Feb. IS. For the purpose of observing the comet Pons Win necke, which will be visible in Australia in June, July, and August, the, big telescope at Melbourne Observatory, which has not been used for 40 years, is being put into, commission again. The instrument is 166 feet long, and the movable section weighs nine tons. It is the second largest in the .southern hemisphere.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 18 February 1927, Page 9
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80ONCE MORE IN USE. Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 18 February 1927, Page 9
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