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THE REPORTED NOVA IN LYRA.—In this column last week reference was made to the announcement of the appearance of a new star near the constellation of Lyra. The weather conditions for observing the object were not favourable, in this country at least, until the night of December 6, when observations were made at Greenwich, the Norman Lockyer Observatory in Devon, and at Armagh. All the observers reported that no bright star existed in the region of the supposed nova; in fact, photographs of the spectra of stars in that region down to the sixth magnitude, taken at the Norman Lockyer Observatory, did not reveal the presence of any star giving the characteristic spectrum of a new star. That a star of the first magnitude should dim so quickly in such a short period of time would be quite unique in the records. of novae, so it must be assumed that the observer was, mistaken or the announcement incorrect.
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Our Astronomical Column. Nature 110, 821 (1922). https://doi.org/10.1038/110821a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/110821a0