HALLEY S COMET.
Halley’.-'- comet, which was nearest, to the sun and to the earth and a>- its greatest brilliancy more than a year ago, has been followed on its journey into distant space with the telescopes of the Lick Observatory. The comet is now (says a message fiom the Observatory dated May 27th) a little further than Jupiter is from the sun —that is, about 500,000,000 miles —but Astronomer Curtis has photographed it with the Crossley reflector on two nights this week exactly in the predicted positions. Even with the powerful photographic telescope, the image of the comet is extremely faint on the plates, and it would no doubt be invisible in the most powerful telescopes if looked lor visually. The comet is now 60 per cent- further from the sun than it was when its approach to the sun was discovered photographically in September, 1909.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIII, Issue 1012, 1 July 1911, Page 4
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147HALLEY S COMET. Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIII, Issue 1012, 1 July 1911, Page 4
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