[vsnet-chat 2691] Re: [Vsnet-chat 2679] [Prediscovery obs. of cv]

[Brian Skiff <bas@lowell.edu>]

     I just looked up WX Hyi in the AC2000 (it's catalogue i/247 at VizieR),
and indeed find the 1925.859 observation given there.  It must have a bit
of proper motion, since the position (2 09 50.44  -63 18 41.6) is a few
arcseconds from theone in SIMBAD (which is perhaps a poor Downes & Shara
place).  
     It is thing like this that make one want to have all the big 
photographic surveys scanned into digital form.  Even the Lowell "Pluto
Camera" collection would be useful, since it contains about half a dozen
plates of the northern 2/3 of the sky at two epochs (circa 1935 and 1965)
in two colors down to blue mag. 17 or so.  (any spot in the sky has about
six or eight plates covering it)  There's a "reduced silver" mine waiting
to be dug into.

\Brian

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