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A STAR that should be added to the list of variables is + 26°43, of the Bonn Durchmusterung, in which work its magnitude is given as 8˙7. In reply to a letter of mine, in which I expressed a doubt as to this star's existence, Dr. Küstner, of Bonn, informed me that although he had on the 7th of this month looked in vain for the star with the 6-inch refractor of Bonn Observatory, yet it seemed pretty certain that a star had twice been observed in the specified place in September, 1855. I have subsequently been informed by Sir Robert Ball, that the star was twice observed at Cambridge (England) in 1878. The dates and places of the various observations, as well as the estimated magnitudes, are:—
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ANDERSON, T. New Variable Star in Andromeda. Nature 49, 101 (1893). https://doi.org/10.1038/049101c0
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