NEW COMET FOUND
RAPID SOUTHWARD MOTION VISIBLE WITH BINOCULARS The discovery of a new comet has been reported from Australia through the Carter Observatory, Wellington. The information available indicates tl'.at tiie object was first seen on July 28, when it possessed a nucleus but no tail. Being of the seventh magnitude it is beyond the limit of nakedeye vision, but should be easily detected in a pair of binoculars. The position of the comet to-night will be: Right ascension 21 hours 42 minutes, declination 31deg. south, places it slightly north of the star lota in the constellation of Pisces Australis. The comet is moving almost due south, its right ascension increasing bv 5.G minutes and! its declination by 2deg. 49 minutes a day. Neither the name of the .discoverer nor the country in which the discovery was made were given in the original message, which was forwarded by tlie Melbourne Observatory.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20006, 3 August 1939, Page 7
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151NEW COMET FOUND Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20006, 3 August 1939, Page 7
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