Democratic Sentinel, Volume 6, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 March 1882 — Comet Seeking. [ARTICLE]

Comet Seeking.

The number of comet seekers is so few, compared with the amplitude of the tracts of sky to be explored nightly, that it is probable that many celestialvisitors escape detection. Several observers may be simultaneously at work upon one region, while larger areas may be left entirely unexplored, To prevent

Buch unintentional waste of time and labor the Science Observer suggests a mapping out of the heavens and an allotment of special tracts to particular observers, who shall agree to explore them nightly.