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THE DOUBLE-STAR B.A.C. 1972.—Capt. Jacob, reviewing the measures of this object, first registered double by Dunlop with his 9-feet reflector at Paramatta (No. 23 of the Catalogue of 253 stars), remarked of it in 1858: “the angle is, on the whole, evidently advancing, and the distance decreasing, but the measures are strangely wild, considering the easiness of the object, and seem to indicate the presence of some perturbing body.” For comparison the following may be selected:—
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Our Astronomical Column . Nature 14, 337 (1876). https://doi.org/10.1038/014337a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/014337a0