Request for observations of Polyhymnia

✍ Scribed by Simon Newcomb

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1879
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 94 KB
• Volume: 96
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0004-6337
• DOI: 10.1002/asna.18790961207

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Nov. 14. 1879, I ascertained that the object Nr. 4004 in Argelander, f 4 1 , is not of a stellar nature. This was suspected with a low sweeping power of perhaps 50, on my 9.38 inch silvered mirror by With, and was at once established by higher magnifiers, which shewed a bluish ill-defined disc of about 4", surrounded possibly with a feeble glow. Through the kindness of Dr. Copeland, by whom it has been carefully examined under the most favourable instrumental circumstances at the Observatory of Lord Lindsay, Dun Echt, N. B. I am enabled to add the following