Paper, 'On [Charles] Wolf and [Georges] Rayet's bright-line stars in Cygnus' by William Huggins and Margaret Lindsay Huggins
Reference number: PP/17/1
Date: 1890
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The authors write: 'In 1867 MM. Wolf and Rayet discovered at the Paris Observatory three small stars in Cygnus, which in the spectroscope showed several bright lines upon a continuous spectrum. All three stars have a very bright band in the blue part of the spectrum. These stars are: –B. D. + 35°, No. 4001. B. D. + 35°, No. 4013. B. D. + 36°, No. 3956.'
Annotations in pencil and ink. Includes one page of spectrum diagrams.
Subject: Astronomy / Spectroscopy
Received 25 November 1890. Read 11 December 1890.
A version of this paper was published in volume 49 of the Proceedings of the Royal Society as 'On Wolf and Rayet's bright-line stars in Cygnus'.
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- PP/17/1
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- 1890
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- Ink and graphite pencil on paper
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- 26 pages
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William Huggins, Paper, 'On [Charles] Wolf and [Georges] Rayet's bright-line stars in Cygnus' by William Huggins and Margaret Lindsay Huggins, 1890, PP/17/1, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pp_17_1/paper-on-charles-wolf-and-georges-rayets-bright-line-stars-in-cygnus-by-william-huggins-and-margaret-lindsay-huggins, accessed on 02 December 2024
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Date: 31st December 1891
DOI: 10.1098/rspl.1890.0063
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Scientific papers published in the Proceedings of the Royal Society volume 49, 1890-1891
1890-1891 Reference number: PP/17
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