NEW COMET OBSERVED
MELBOURNE REPORT NOT VISIBLE TO NAKED EYE Press Association WELLINGTON, Today. The Dominion Observatory in Wellington has received a cablegram from the Melbourne Observatory announcing that a new comet was discovered on August 2 at 22 hours 54.7 minutes. At the time of the discovery the comet’s position was: —Right ascension, 21hr 16min 4.6 sec; declination, 12deg 45min 41sec south. It had a planetary motion, and as its magnitude was of the order of 13.5 it was invisible to the naked eye.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 737, 9 August 1929, Page 16
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85NEW COMET OBSERVED Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 737, 9 August 1929, Page 16
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