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A popular handbook and atlas of astronomy, designed as a complete guide to a knowledge of the heavenly bodies and as an aid to those possessing telescopes (1891)

Peck, William, Sir, 1862-1925 · New York, G. P. Putnam's Sons · leaf 220

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; distance 14. A sixth magnitude multiple star. A yellowish 45 magnitude star, with a 7th magnitude blue companion, distant 5. A very fine double star ; colours, yellow and blue ; distance 40. A binary star. Discovered at Pulkowa to be triple ; magnitudes, 5, 9, and 11. A binary star. Magnitudes… … Construated hy\ R W. Peck EdinJ VARIABLE STABS. C E P H E U S—conti7iued. K Discovered by Pogson, in 1856, to be variable from magnitudes 5 to 10, in an irregular period.Variable from magnitudes 4 to 5 ; discovered by Hind in 1848.A very regular variable star; period 5*4 days ; maximum 37 ; minimum…

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