PELTIER'S COMET
VERY FAINT OBJECT DECREASE IN TAIL Peltier's comet, which for about two weeks in August was a prominent object in the southern sky. possessing at its brightest phase a tail about 2J degrees in length, passed beyond the range of the naked-eye observer about August 20. The comet is now a telescopic! object, situated on the southern boundary of tho constellation Pavo, near the south celestial pole. As it has rapidly waned in brightness, the tail has become correspondingly faint and shorter, last Friday being less than half a degree in lengt'i. The comet's motion in contrast to some weeks ago is now very slow, as it is now moving in a day over less of the sky than it formerly covered in an hour. The comet will not much longer remain visible, even in the largest local telescopes.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22512, 1 September 1936, Page 12
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141PELTIER'S COMET New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22512, 1 September 1936, Page 12
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