[vsnet-chat 2824] V915 Sgr

["Martha Hazen" <mhazen@cfa.harvard.edu>]

Brian Skiff, in vsnet-chat 2787, raises a question about the 
identification of V915 Sgr.

The original Luyten plate pair for this field in Sagittarius shows a 
star marked as a variable at position (2000) 18 41 32.59  -29 04 
03.6

There is no other variable marked on the plate pair in the area, so I 
assume this is the one that was given the designation HV 9509, 
and is V 915 Sgr.  One must assume that Luyten in the AN article 
(261, 454, 1936) made an error in reading the coordinates off the 
chart.  I do not know if a correction was published subsequently.

The position above agrees with the finding chart of Herbig (PASP 
70, 605, 1958).

I thank G. Williams for doing the astrometry.

Martha L. Hazen
Harvard College Observatory

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