The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1910-05-06
Be SURE AND SEE
HALLEYS COMET
GETTING BRIGHTER EACH NOR. !.
ING AND MANY WILL VIEW
1T ALMOST DAILY.
1t Is Worth Losing Sleep To View the
Franks of This Travelling Visitor
Some Facts About the Comet and
Its Discovery.

ii"iie!s comet and Venus the
brightest staor in the heavens are now
forming a close partnership and the
eyes or the whole world are focused
on the planet and the luminous wan
dererS in speacs.
This morning at ESQ O'Clock or
about two hours before sunrise the
comet hlazed its way across the sky's
path and to those watching it an
peared to hit the same trail taken by
the morning star. In reality it was
100000 miles away, but because it's
course is in the same direction it
seemed to be a close companion to the
star.
FROM now until May IS HalIey's
comet will appear each morning in
the eastern sky about two hours be-
fore sunrise.
whether yoa mount your roof, use
your back porch for an observatory, or
hang cut Of the frCnt window to scan
the heavens for the comet ycu must
! re sure TO locate the point in tn esky
| where the sun is about to rise, then
| find Venus and afterwards measure off
| about 20 degrees north to discover the
exact position of the comet which at
| the present time, though it is visible
| to the make eye is not so spectacular
as to challenge the attention Of the
unObserving.
| The brightness of the moon at pres
ent has eclipsed the comet and makes
/ it HifFipI1lt tn icti An
naked eye. However. those who be-
lieve the seventy-si six year heavenly
wonder is worth losing a few hours
sleep can count on its appearance ey-
cry morning two hours before sunrise
! until May Is, when the earth will pass
through its tail of gsseoug niol- -cules
and cosmic dust and when tie comet
will flop over to the left side O. the
sun. After this it viii a9pear fe.u-
larly until June >. two hl;na Or i, re
after sunset.
Not Bit Errat.c
Though the comet appears 20 o. an
erratic and Quixotic soft Of yIaijor
whirling and slewing through the So
| lar system at the rate OF a millicn
! miles a day. ii is in reality an elderly
and law-ahidirg denizen Of tie tuter
! spheres. 1t follows a given orbit, clip
| teal in shape, and carries out Il def
mite program, arriving runc.nally in
certain places at certain dates.
Astronomers predicted its course
| years ago, and today it is carrying
+ out their prophecy to the letter. Here
are few of the dates which have been
set down in the comets engagement
! book:
On May it will be at tie greatest
distance Or l,ongation from the sun.
/ On May 10 it is likely to discharge a
few meteors May Is is the date set
for the earth to pass through its tall
at 8 O'Clock in the evening. The pass
| age will last five hours, and its only
effect will be perhaps a noticeable sal
/ phurous smell of density Of the at
mo5phere At this time the head of
the comet will be only $4,000, 900 miles
away from the earth, and the tail will
/ extend beyond it.
On May 2 the comet will be at it's
best, and will be visible two hours
after sunset, luminous spectre trail
ing an anpendage more than a million
miles long. On June 5, it will swirl it
self out Of sight, leaving the orbit of
the eartH behind it, and becoming fas-
ter and more remote, a vanishing
guest among the astral bodies. 1t will
pUrue its furious course around the
elongated elipse, which it its orbit, and
not appear in sight of the earth again
/ for seEcnty-siX years.
( Halleys comet has history as lcng
as its tail 1t has been known since
I II B. r. and has made periodical vlslt5
TO TIE earth, bat not until 1862 was
/ it recognized as the identical comet
that had been trailing along every
once in a while. Then Edmund HALEY
! and English astronomer, calculated its
orbit and predicted its return. When
! it appeared after his death in l1o9 It
vas named after him.
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