Salt Lake Tribune | 1910-04-24 | Page 1 | Halley's Comet Rises at 3:06 A. M. on Monday

ALLEY'S COMET ? :; RISES AT 3:06 f t A. ION MONDAY J 4- (Copyright, 19J0, hy Frederick I- Campbell.) J. April 21 Plalley's comet rises to--I- day at 3:09 a. ni.; rises tomorrow at 3:00 a. m. Sun rlBos at 5:01 a. m. 4-j- Comet's speed today about 1822 1 miles per minute, which Is about tho .. 4- speed of tho swlfest planol, Mercury, which fll03 at 1775 mllon por mlnuto; A-f A-f Venus, 1300; earth, 1100. Tho comet ! v is today almost directly approaching 4 p tho earth at this speed, hence grow-I- Ing rapidly In apparont size. The A I- comet today reaches tho extreme limit of Its westward movement -I-4- among the stars of the constellation 4-I- Pisces, a Httlo eaHt of Omoga and south of tho southeast corner of the Great Square of Pogosus. It now on- 4. J teis upon an Immense Journey enst- -l' j ward, which will soon carry It to -J - Orion, where It was dlscovorod last 4 Scptomber. Position, Right Asccn- -I slon, 23 hours, 52 minutes; decllna- 4. h tlon, 8 degrees north of celestial equator. ,i. r 'J'his Is mean time essentially a correct for any location. .