HEAVENLY PHENOMENA
ECLIPSE AND COMET Becoming lavish in its display of phenomena, the heavens will provide a comet and a total eclipse of the moon to-morrow morning. There is just a likelihood that the blotting out of the moon may allow the comet which made a sudden appearance last week to be seen more clearly, though the time is probably too near dawn. Observers will have to be enthusiastic, for eclipse gazing means getting up very early in the morning. The moon enters the penumbra at 3.23 a.m., the umbra at 4.22 a.m., and the total eclipse begins at 5.24 a.m. Unfortunately the moon sets at 5.39 a.m., so that the eclipse w-ill have reached totality 15 minutes before setting. The identity of the comet has not been disclosed yet and it will not be decided until the observations made here have been put together by Melbourne or Greenwich or some other big observatory.
It is rapidly changing its position, but it was still clearly visible last night.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 222, 8 December 1927, Page 11
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