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DECLINATIONS OF FIFTY-SIX STARS.—The definitive declinations and proper motions of fifty-six stars have been determined at the Columbia College Observatory {Contributions, No. 8). The stars in question were selected by Profs. Fergola and Jacoby for observation at Naples and New York by the Talcott method, for the determination of the variation of latitude, and for the calculation of the constant of aberration by Küstner's method. Prof. Jacoby commenced the investigation, but ill-health compelled him to relinquish it, and it was continued by Mr. Davis. The discussion of the declinations was undertaken with the object of obtaining results based upon all available observations, so as to make this part of the work of value as an independent research. The memoir involves observations recorded in no less than 130 star catalogues, and represents an enormous amount of painstaking computation.
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Our Astronomical Column. Nature 54, 206–207 (1896). https://doi.org/10.1038/054206a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/054206a0