Pièce GPP/1/3 - Catalogue of Stars, Nebulas, & Double Stars etc., April 28th 1782’

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Notebook, in handwriting of John Goodricke.

SUMMARY:

• pp.1-3 - ‘No.1 A Catalogue of the Nebulas hitherto discovered with their Right Ascensions both in order and time and Declination etc. also the length of their diameters & the years to which their R. Ascensions and Declin. were reduced’
  Numbered 1 to 34, ‘Here ends the Catalogue in regular order of Right Ascension’, followed by numbers 35 to 37. ‘Year reduced’ 1758 to 1780.

• pp.4-5 – ‘No.2. A Catalogue of all the Clusters of small stars etc that look like Nebula’s or are environed with them, with their R.A. both in order of time and Declin. etc’. Numbered 1 to 33. ‘Year reduced’ 1764 to 1780. Notes, no.5 (Near Kappa Antinous) ‘should rather be put with Neb.’, and ‘*No.23 [Grand one in Orion’s sword] – it shd. rather be reckoned amg. ye Catalogue of Nebulas’.

• p.6 – ‘A List of the stars between Mu and Eta Gem:inorum mostly of the 6th and 7th magnitude taken from Mayer’s excellent catalogue reduced to 1750’. List gives Eta Gem., stars lettered from a to i, and Mu Gem.. ‘Place of the stars giveth ye Characters’.

  • ‘A List of the Right Ascensions and Polar Distances of the most remarkable and brightest of the fixed stars taken from Bradleys Catalogue reduced to 1760, besides others added from different Catalogues’. Includes the magnitude as given in the original catalogue and as observed by Goodricke. 5 pages.

• ‘A list of Double Stars with their magnitudes’. 32 listed, then note ‘1783 March – There is now in the Philosophical Transactions a long Catalogue of Double stars amounting to about 250 and another is also publishing – all by Mr Herschel F.R.S.’. 1 page.

• ‘A List of variable Stars’. Numbered 1 to 16, beginning with ‘The Nova in Cassiopeia’s Chair’. Gamma Canis Majoris and Algol or Beta Persei have been added in pencil. 1 page.

• ‘Bright Stars that have nearly or exactly the same declination and fit for observing diff. of R.A. with a Quadrant only wanting [all?] 5 Revolutions of the Micrometer or none at all’. List of 12 groups of stars. 1 page.

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