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OCCULTATION OF ALDEBARAN ON MAY 15.—The ephemerides do not take cognisance of occultations of the brighter stars, when near to the sun's place, nor indeed, as a rule, of occultations generally which occur whilst the sun is above the horizon of the place to which the calculations are adapted. In the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society for March, 1868, is a note communicated by Mr. R. S. Newall, drawing attention to an occultation of Aldebaran on May 22 in that year, when the star was little more than 8° distant from the sun, and suggesting that observation would be possible with a good equatorial, and, at any rate, would be worth trying, merely as a matter of curiosity. It does not appear from the succeeding numbers of the Monthly Notices that the occultation in question was anywhere observed, but on May 15 in the present year one of the same star will take place when its distance from the sun is 14½, and some observers may be inclined to make an attempt to record the phenomenon. At the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, the star escapes occultation; in the north of England and in Scotland the times for the various-observatories are as follow:—
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Our Astronomical Column . Nature 31, 612 (1885). https://doi.org/10.1038/031612a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/031612a0