Stars and telescopes; a hand-book of popular astronomy, founded on the 9th ed. of Lynn's Celestial motions (1899)
Todd, David P. (David Peck), 1855-1939, Lynn, William Thynne, 1835-1911. Celestial motions · Boston, Little, Brown and company · leaf 328
about sixmonths, and invisible during the succeeding five. Halley was the first to suspect changes of bright-ness in that remarkable star in the southern hemi-sphere, r) Argus, which he had observed at Saint Helena near the Milky Way ; and in the case of Nova Aurigae at least,the striking display… … zyo Stars and Telescopes in 16 7 7 as of the fourth magnitude. Lacaille in 1751saw it of the second \ and its changes from time totime since have been exceedingly irregular. In 1838,and again in 1843, it surpassed for a while all otherstars in brightness, excepting only Sirius. After thelatter…
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