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SINCE publishing, in NATURE of January 2, the suggestion that the cause of the apparent expansion of the nebula surrounding Nova Persei might be explained by the illumination of meteoric matter by the light sent out on the occasion of the outburst of the Nova, I have seen a paper published by Prof. Kapteyn in the Astr. Nach. (No. 3756), in which he suggests the same idea. His claim to priority in the matter is therefore clear. In my note, referred to, I give the distance of the Nova as 313 light years. In calculating this distance I made the mistake of taking the date of the outburst as February 12 instead of the 22nd. This made the distance of the Nova considerably too great.
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WILSON, W. The Distance of Nova Persei. Nature 65, 298–299 (1902). https://doi.org/10.1038/065298a0
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