NEW COMET
SEEN BY OBSERVER IN WELLINGTON. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, This Day. A new comet discovered in ’ Sweden on February 12 was picked up on Saturday evening by Mr B. E. Stonehouse, secretary of the New Zealand Astronomical Society. Present indications are that the comet, which is on the verge of becoming visible to the naked eye, will get brighter. Its position was. Right ascension, 10 hours 4 minutes; declination, north 3.1 degrees The position is a little to the south of the star Regulus, in the constellation Leo, which between 9 and 10 p.m. is in the north-eastern sky.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 9 March 1942, Page 2
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