HALLEY’S COMET.

Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXXV, Issue 13058, 28 April 1910, Page 5

HALLEY’S COMET.

SEEN FROM GENEVA. Press Association—T 'egraph.—Copyright. BERNE, April 27. Halley’s comet is visible at Geneva to the naked eye for 55 minutes. The tail has not been scon. The cornet was plainly visible at Wanganui this morning at 5 o’clock, when the sky was beautifully dear. ; “HOW TO FIND HALLEY’S COMET.” “Punch” says that the way to find Halley’s comet is to stand so that, Mars and Saturn are in a line running due N.N.E. by E. from the parallax, and making an angle of 34 degrees will) an imaginary line drawn S.E. 'by E.S.E. (approximately) from the Pole Star, Venus or the constellation of Orion. Taking then the mean distance between any two of these points and Greenwich, draw a pentagonal foensliue directly opposite to the base of observation. This will give the required altitude, and the curve of contact will bo instantly apparent. It should he noted that after 6 a.m. the tangent of co-or-dinated co-cfficicnts should' bo regarded as equal to the sum of the differences of the two equations squared.