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CARASKI's VAEIABLE STAR, U CEPHEI.βOn comparing Dr. Julius Schmidt's observations of this star in 1882, with minima determined by the same observer in the autumn of 1880, there resuks a period of 2.49289 days, or 2d. 11h. 49m. 46s., on the assumption that it is regular or equable. Dr. Schmidt suspected marked variation in the period, each successive period being 5.25 seconds longer thah the preceding one. The following are the times of minima in March, which will be observable here:β
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Our Astronomical Column . Nature 27, 424 (1883). https://doi.org/10.1038/027424a0
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