From:
Francis Baily
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[18 September 1843]
Source of text:
RS:HS 3.260
Summary:
Regarding bringing N. L. Lacaille up to a modern period. Regarding a table of precessions. FB's sister.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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Regarding bringing N. L. Lacaille up to a modern period. Regarding a table of precessions. FB's sister.
It will be quite convenient for JH to visit him on Friday. Sister's health is improved. Delay in the celestial maps ordered.
Has a copy of F. W. A. Argelander's Uranometria. Comments on this in relation to the proposed revision of the constellations.
Has received his letter and incorporated the amendments in the paper.
Has compared all the stars in N. L. Lacaille's catalogue to the new observations and plan for the constellations.
More on confused systems of star magnitudes used by Thomas Henderson.
Comments regarding the proposed revision of the constellations.