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Miscellania from John Herschel's Cape Results
By Auke Slotegraaf. Published 2009 December 03.
A summary of curious remarks made, and particularly interesting objects noted, as published in John Herschel' Cape Results.
Non-stellar objects in old star catalogues
By Auke Slotegraaf. Published 2004 January 01.
Thirty astrometric catalogues, dating from 1752 to 1917, were searched for references to nonstellar objects; 138 were found. Of these, 64 were identified in modern nonstellar databases. A further 62 objects are presented as being candidate open cluster remnants or microclusters.
Update: Non-stellar objects in old star catalogues
By Auke Slotegraaf. Published 2007 January 08.
Update of the 2003 article "Non-stellar objects in old star catalogues" with suggested cross-identifications supplied by Philipp Teutsch of the Deep Sky Hunters collaboration.
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