The copper era., 1910-05-06
How to See HaIIey's Comet.
From Los Angeles Examiner.

From Los Angeles Examiner.
 Set your alarm clock to awaken you at o'clock in the morning. When the bell awakens you, arise, dress and seek the roof.
 Take with you a card board mail ing tube or a roll of paper-this to use telescope fashion while gazing at the comet. its function Is to e&- elude outside lights,
 Arriving St the roof gaze due east.
 You will see a bright luminary in the southeastern sky. Don't firt with this-it is Venus.
 Keep looking due east. That broad haze leading up to brilliant nucleus is Haley comet. It rises above the eastern horizon about 3!l5 a. m. for the next few days, and is visible until daylight obscures it.
 "Say, has anyone here seen Hal ley's comet?'' asked the timid man on the crowded street car,
 'sShure brothern patronized fat individual. "1 saw 1t this morning. Quite a brilliant fellow, too. Look ed like an arc light.n
 "Where was it2" chorused the car.
 "Why," smiled the fat one. Right over there (pointing with one pndgy finger to the southeastern sky), quite a bit south of east"
 "Naw!" snorted the urchin in dis gust. "That isn't Halley's."
 The fat man glared.
 "Halley's," continued the urchin. "Looks like a pail of whitewash tip ped over in the sky an runnin' over the horizon, where the earth and sky meet to say Agood morning."
 "What's the other" asked the chorus.
 "Why, she's Venus" said the urchin. ''Guess me and my brother know. We have been up four morn ings now"
 And thus was popular tallacy ex- ploded. Many rise to see Halley's, are fascinated by Venus and scurry back to bed before their feet get cold. They take a satisfied beauty nap and tell their neighbors how brilliant Halley's is
 "Venus is brilliant at this time, 7" said Professor F. H. Seares of the Mt. Wilson observatory. Professor Seares was formerly professor of as- tronomy and director of Laws ob- seryatory of the University of Mis- souri.
 "But those who rise carly" he con- tinued, twill have no trouble seeing Halley's comet. It is plainly visible from 3:30 to o'clock in the morning. It is due east and at 3:3O o'clock is high enough in the heavens to be seen from any clear place.
 "Venus is quite a little way south of east and little higher in the heavens than .Halley's. It is so un. usually brilliant now that it may readily be taken by the layman for the comet. But it has the sparkle and twinkle peculiar to stars, while the comet is different"
 Scientists on Mt. Wilson and all over the world agree that there is nothing to fear from the comet.
 1t is patty put by the Rev. Brother Potamin of Manhattan (N. Y ) Col lege, who said:
 1 "There is one chance in 15, 900, ,00O that the earth and Halley's comet will collide. The track of the head of the. comet Is 13,OOO,OOO miles from the earth.
 "On the night of May IS, however there will be a collision between the earth and the tail of the comet. On that night the earth will plunge through the tail of the comet like a steam engine through a collection oi cobwebs. Any damage done will be to the comet.
 The tail of Halley's comet at the present time. is of unknown length although estimated at from 5000, ,OOC to 20, GOO, 900 miles in length.
 It is impossible to photograph the tail in it's entirety owing to the brightness of the sky during the period just prior to sunrise that the comet is visible to the eye or instru ment.
 When the comets tail crosses the path of earth on May IS the tail, il is estimated will be 5O,OOO,O0 mile, long. This will be due to it's closer proximity to the sun. The earth wll lop off, then. something like 35,OOO,OC( miles of tail from the comet and ii will go limping into space on its CT ratio orbit minus part of its ap bondage.
 With the suns rays pouring over its exposed surface. loosening ant hurling by their electrical force huge masses of gases and some solids our