Episode 2 of 2
Discovery
- When
- 21 April 1899
- Where
- Harvard College Observatory
Williamina Fleming discovered the nova on a photographic plate taken at Harvard College Observatory on 21 April 1899.
The discovery was made on a photographic plate, one of the Henry Draper Memorial Photographs, taken on 21 April 1899 at the Harvard College Observatory. The nova was not seen on a plate taken on 1 November 1898, and there were no reported observations of the region during the 171-day interval before Fleming's discovery.
Sources
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