ALL ABOUT THE COMET.
Lpeb united pbess association.] DUNEDIN, This Day. Arthur Beverley writes as follows to the Evening Star last night concerning the comet : — " The great comet was iin perihelion last night, and is now receding from the sun in the same direction that it approached him. It went very near the sun at perihelion, and was twice in conjunction with him- within a few hours, the eastern portion of its orbit being discerned as it approached tbe perihelion on the remote side of the sun, and is receding from it on the near side, hence it is much nearer the earth than before. Afc sunrise it was 3deg. west from the sun; at 10 a.m. it was a little more than 4^deg. west. It is exceedingly brilliant, and will probably be distinctly visible to the naked eye in the day time for several days.
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Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume III, Issue 303, 20 September 1882, Page 2
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