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NEW VARIABLE STAR (?).—Mr. J. E. Gore, of Umballa, writes with reference to a star of about the 6th magnitude noticed on the 13th of January about 1° north, following θ Leporis, and not having found it in Harding's Atlas or in Lalande, or the B. A. C., he supposed it might be a new star. “It is of a reddish colour, and is in the same low-power field with, and about 25′ north of (a little preceding) the 7m. star Lalande 11778 . . . It is closely followed by two small stars which formed with it a curved line.” From this description the star is evidently VI. 58 of Weisse's first Catalogue, observed by Bessel early in 1825, and estimated 6.7 magnitude, the small stars preceding it being Nos. 68 and 78 of the same hour. It is not found in D'Agelet, Lamont, or in any other catalogue we have examined, of previous date to that accompanying Heis's Atlas, where it is entered 6.7, but erroneously identified with VI. 58 of Weisse's second Catalogue, instead of VI. 58 of his first. (The large number of similar errors in Heis's references is a serious defect in a work otherwise of so much value.) Mr. Gore mentions that he had not remarked, up to the middle of April, any variation in the star's light, but it evidently requires further examination, and may yet appear on our rapidly extending list of variables.
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Our Astronomical Column . Nature 12, 48 (1875). https://doi.org/10.1038/012048b0
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