Harvard Astronomers See Celestial Event From Five Lands

An astronomical event never before viewed by man was recently observed by teams from the Harvard Observatory. Since observation of this event, the passing of the star Venus in front of the magnitude star Regulus, would have been handicapped in North America, the Observatory sent teams to the far corners of the earth to gather vital data on this phenomenon.

The teams used telescopes ranging from eight to 48 inches in diameter, along with special equipment for running unified programs of observation by visual, photographic, and photoelectric techniques.