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THE ARGENTINE GENERAL CATALOGUE OF STARS.—This Catalogue, containing the mean positions of 32,448 southern stars determined at the National Observatory of Cordoba, has recently been published by Dr. Gould. The observations from which the Catalogue positions are deduced were made with the meridian-circle of the Cordoba Observatory during the years 1872-80. During these years the zone-observations were the chief object of attention, and the present Catalogue contains the places of those stars whose positions were more elaborately determined during the progress of that great work, and constitute an addition to our knowledge of southern stellar positions of perhaps not less importance than the Cordoba Zone-Catalogue. The General Catalogue gives the positions, for the epoch 1875.0, of most of the southern stars brighter than magnitude 8½, the deficiencies in this respect being chiefly found north of the parallel of 23°, at which the zones begin. These omissions will be of comparatively small importance, inasmuch as the new Durchmusterung of Prof. Schönfeld comprises all the southern stars within this region, while accurate determinations of the brighter ones will have been made in the re-observation of Lalande's stars now nearly completed at the Paris Observatory.
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Our Astronomical Column . Nature 35, 113 (1886). https://doi.org/10.1038/035113a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/035113a0