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VARIABLE STAR (?).—Mr. J. E. Gore, of Umballa, Punjâb, suspects variability in a star “about 2° preceding the 5m. σ Andromedæ, which Harding shows a 5 m. star, and which is not in Lalande,” and he gives as the approximate place for beginning of the present year, R.A. oh. 2m., and N.P.D. 53° 59′. On looking up the history of this star there will, however, hardly appear sufficient proof of any change of magnitude. Though it does not occur in the reduced Catalogue of Lalande, the star was, nevertheless, observed by him, and the place for 1790 will be found in “Connaissancedes Temps,” An. vii. p. 423, where the star is called 6 m., and being one of the large numbers of stars the positions of which were communicated by Lalande to Bode, in manuscript, it appears in the catalogue to his large atlas, and is there called E Andromedæ, but a 5 m., with Lalande as authority. Bessel (Zone 386) estimated it 7; it is 6.2 in the “Durchmusterung,” and 6.7 in Heis.
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Our Astronomical Column . Nature 12, 367–368 (1875). https://doi.org/10.1038/012367a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/012367a0