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GM SGR-NOW TWO DIFFERENT VARIABLES

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Martha L. Hazen

Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics

60 Garden Street

Cambridge, MA 02138

Dorrit Hoffleit

Department of Astronomy

Yale University

New Haven, CT 06520

Barbara L. Welther

Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics

Cambridge, MA 02138

David B. Williams

P.O. Box 58

Whitestown, IN 46075

Presented at the 88th Annual Meeting of the AAVSO, October 30, 1999

Abstract

W. J. Luyten reported the discovery of GM Sgr in 1927; in 1978, a finding chart of V. P. Goranskij placed the variable about 1 arc min north of Luyten’s position. The authors find that Goranskij’s variable is not identical with Luyten’s. Goranskij’s variable is now V4641 Sgr.

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