Skjellerup's Comet Due This Week-End

Skjellerup's comet, originally expected to become visible Monday night and which has not yet appeared here, will not appear until the night before Christmas or on Christmas morning. It was learned at a late hour last night from the Harvard College Observatory. Owing to the fact that the sky-wanderer is pursuing a course divergent from the one original computed for it and now seems to lie along a line passing through the earth and the sun, it will not be readily visible as at first believed. When it comes within range, it will be for only one nocturnal appearance.

The error in the original stellar calculations was detected yesterday morning when a mountain observatory in Oregon sighted the speeding sphere under conditions of visibility more favorable than those to be found in Cambridge.