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PUBLICATIONS OF BERGEDORF OBSERVATORY.—Bergedorf Observatory deserves the thanks of astronomers for the useful series of reference volumes that it is publishing. The G.F.H. or history of the fixed stars has been proceeding in instalments for several years. But that work does not contain observations made later than 1900; as large numbers of more recent catalogues have now accumulated, two volumes containing references to meridian observations made in the present century have just been published, dealing respectively with north, and south declinations. Each volume has about 300 pages. The arrangement of the Durchmusterung is followed. The stars are grouped in degree of declination, the reference number of each star according to the Bonn or Cordoba D.M.; then follow a pair of numbers; the first number is the index denoting a catalogue; 401 catalogues are listed at the end of each volume; the second number is that borne by the star in the catalogue referred to. There are a considerable number of stars not contained in the D.M.; these are given in separate lists, at the end of each degree of declination. Thus the material available for each star is shown at a glance.
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Our Astronomical Column. Nature 122, 900 (1928). https://doi.org/10.1038/122900a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/122900a0