Paper, 'On the new star in Auriga. Preliminary note' by Joseph Norman Lockyer
Reference number: PP/18/24
Date: 1892
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Lockyer writes: 'From a note in "The Times" of Wednesday, February 3rd, I learnt that a new star had been discovered in the constellation Auriga, and that photographs had been obtained at Greenwich on Monday night. Observations were therefore impossible here before last night.'
Annotations in pencil and ink.
Subject: Astronomy
Received and read 4 February 1892.
A version of this paper was published in volume 50 of the Proceedings of the Royal Society as 'On the new star in Auriga. Preliminary note'.
- Reference number
- PP/18/24
- Earliest possible date
- 1892
- Physical description
- Ink and graphite pencil on paper
- Page extent
- 5 pages
- Format
- Manuscript
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Joseph Norman Lockyer, Paper, 'On the new star in Auriga. Preliminary note' by Joseph Norman Lockyer, 1892, PP/18/24, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pp_18_24/paper-on-the-new-star-in-auriga-preliminary-note-by-joseph-norman-lockyer, accessed on 06 March 2026
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Date: 31st December 1892
DOI: 10.1098/rspl.1891.0051
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Scientific papers published in the Proceedings of the Royal Society volume 50, 1892
1892 Reference number: PP/18
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