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Since the receipt of the first account of Dr. Schmidt's Nova the weather here has generally been of the most unfavourable character, and it was not until January 2 that the new star could be examined with the 15-inch refractor of this observatory. On the evening of that day the Nova was of about the seventh magnitude and of a decided red colour. The spectrum, as shown in a spectroscope of Dr. Vogel's construction, was of surprising brilliancy, and consisted of a faint continuous spectrum interrupted by five bright lines. The positions of these lines determined in parts of the scale of the instrument, and afterwards reduced to wave-lengths by comparing the spectra of moonlight and various elements are as follows:—
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COPELAND, R. The New Star in Cygnus . Nature 15, 316 (1877). https://doi.org/10.1038/015316a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/015316a0