John, Hitoshi, et al.: The reference is given in the printed copy as: "1059. W.P.Bidelman, D.J.MacConnell, AJ 78, 687, 1973." where AJ is of course the Astronomical Journal. Best wishes -- John Isles. > > Hitoshi Yamaoka wrote: > > > On the other hand, NSV 12041 (ME) exists in the neighbour, but at > > this position (1950.0) there is no counterpart on DSS images. > > > > >12041 192459. -214200:M 731059 1922.0-21 ME > > > > I cannot seek this reference "731059", so the identification is not > > firm. Could someone kindly refer it? > > Unfortunately there is no electronic edition of the references to the > NSV, and you have to have the printed copy to get at them. > > So it may be just as easy to email the Sternberg Astronomical > Institute's GCVS research group direct [sorry, I have no contact email > for you]. > > I can tell you that the first two digits are a year date, and as the > lack of magnitudes, in tandem with the broad spectral type, suggested an > objective prism survey I tried a search of said for 1973 using the NASA > ADS server, but with no success. Anyway, objective prism derived > positions are often a bit iffy. > > <remainder snipped>