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A BRIGHT NEW STAR.—A telegram just received (December 4) from the International Central Bureau of Astronomical Telegrams at Copenhagen, reports the discovery of a new star on December 1, by Zivierel of Rumania. The star is given as of the first magnitude, and its position in R.A. 18h 48m, and North Declination 28° O′. It is situated just on the border between the two constellations Lyra and Hercules, but as many charts differ as to the position of the actual boundary, some uncertainty may arise as to whether the star will be called Nova Lyræ or Nova Herculis. All new stars are situated either in or on the borders of the Milky Way, and the present one is no exception, lying just on the border. The Nova will easily be picked up on a fine night, because it lies just to the south of the conspicuous constellation of Lyra, made prominent by the brilliant star Vega. The constellation is in the north-western portion of the sky in the early part of the evening. The Nova makes very nearly an equilateral triangle with the two stars v Lyræ and β Cygni and is brighter than both these stars; α Lyræ, or Vega, is of magnitude 0.14, so will approximate closely to the brightness of the Nova, assuming that the latter is still of the first magnitude. This Nova is the brightest which has appeared since that of Nova Cygni, which was discovered in 1920.
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Our Astronomical Column. Nature 110, 785 (1922). https://doi.org/10.1038/110785a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/110785a0