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AN OBSERVATION OF NEPTUNE OCCURRING IN LAMONT'S ZONES.—Mr. Hind pointed out in the Asfronomisclie Nacizrichien, No. 712, two cases of observations of Neptune occurring in Lamont's zones, in which the planet was mistaken for a star. The dates of these two observations are respectively October 25, 1845, and September 7, 1846. Prof. Schönfeld, in No. 2716 of the same publication, draws attention to a third instance in which an observation of the planet occurs in these zones. The date of this observation is September It, 1846. It will be remembered that Neptune was optically discovered by Galle on September 23, 1846. Prof. Schönfeld thinks it advisable to give publicity to his discovery, lest at any time an astronomer should be led to think that this object, which is entered as No. 3818 in the Catalogue in the Munich Supplementband xii. (generally designated Lamont 5), was a “temporary” star.
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Our Astronthmical Column . Nature 33, 498 (1886). https://doi.org/10.1038/033498a0
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