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means that the comet seekers will be 
scanning uncharted skies as they at- 
tempt to locate Halley’s comet. 
Even the faintest already charted 
stars, the Palomar Survey’s list-magni- 
tude objects, are so much brighter than 
the anticipated brightness of Halley’s 
comet this fall that these extremely faint 
stars represent sources of interference in 
the comet search. Stars and galaxies this 
faint are also very numerous; they liter- 
ally pepper the sky. Thus the strategy of 
searching for Halley’s comet at its pres- 
ent vast distance, well beyond the orbit 
of Saturn, consists of examining the 
Palomar Survey photographs to find 
those places along the comet’s predicted 
track where the faint but potentially 
interfering stars are least numerous. Ob- 
servations are then scheduled for the 
nights when the comet’s track will take 
it to those points. The most favorable 
night of the current season at Kitt Peak, 
Belton says, will be December 25 — 
shades of Johann Palitzsch. Unfortu- 
nately, as one of several economy moves, 
the Kitt Peak Observatory recently 
adopted a policy of shutting down at 
Christmas. 
Intensive observations of Halley’s 
comet will begin in 1985 as it brightens 
while moving in toward the sun, making 
its closest approach to the earth in late 
November, then rounding perihelion 
(the closest point to the sun on the 
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