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PROBABLE NEW VARIABLES—Mr. John Tehbutt calls attention in the Observatory for November to the double star Oσ256, one of the components of which appears to he variable; for during the occultation of the star on August 22 the preceding component appeared very distinctly the brighter of the two, whilst Crossley and Gledhill, in their “Hand-hook of Double Stars,” regard this star as the companion. Struve was apparently the first to draw attention to the prohable variability of this star, for whilst he usually estimated the preceding star as the brighter hy half a magnitude, Dembowski recorded it as being the fainter hy that amount.
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Our Astronomical Column . Nature 37, 114 (1887). https://doi.org/10.1038/037114a0
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