NEW COMET SEEN
AUCKLAND WATCHER'S VIEW A new comet which was discovered from Sweden on February 12 and seen last Saturday from Wellington was seen last night by Mr. J. P. Artha, of Devonport. He found it with ordinary binoculars and proved its identity to his satisfaction with a telescope. Mr. Artha said the comet had a fairly long tail, indecisive toward the end, and at the time he found it it was among six small stars. It was about 15 degrees south-west of the star Regulus in the constellation Leo, which at 10 p.m. is in the northern sky, and was moving toward the west.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume 79, Issue 24222, 13 March 1942, Page 4
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