NEW COMET APPEARS.
VISIBLE IN EASTERN SKY*
REPORT FROM COPENHAGEN.
[BX TELEGRAPH. —PRESS ASSOCIATION.] WELLINGTON, Monday.
Dr. C. E. Adams reports that the New Zealand Astronomical Society has received advice by cable from the International Astronomical Union at Copenhagen of tlio discovery of a bright comet of the fourth magnitude on August 14 at 9 hours 29 minutes, Greenwich mean time. The comet's position at the discovery was 8 hours 4 minutes. right ascension and 22 degrees 46 minutes South declination. The comet, which can bo seen with tiio naked eye, should be visible in the eastern sky in the morning, as it rises about one hour- before tho sun. It is not known by whom; the;.comet was discovered. - It is entirely a new visitor and a distincfc object in the sky.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20954, 18 August 1931, Page 8
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