DISCOVERED BY AN AUCKLANDER.
(Per Press Association.)
AUCKLAND; December 15. Mr H. J. Evans, a local observer, reports that he located Halley's Comet at 11 o'clock last night by means of a telescope with a three-inch object glass. The visitor was then right ascension 3h. 30m., and declension 14h. 50m., being thus on the northern horizon between Taurus and Aries. The apparent magnitude of the nucleus was about 9^, and the comet was moving rapidly to-wards Aries. ■
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume L, Issue 12395, 16 December 1909, Page 5
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77DISCOVERED BY AN AUCKLANDER. Wanganui Chronicle, Volume L, Issue 12395, 16 December 1909, Page 5
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