remeasurements

Updated: May 27, 2025

But although devoting most of his attention to much-needed remeasurements of known pairs, he incidentally divided no less than 274 stars, the majority of which lay beyond the resolving power of less keen and effectually aided eyesight. Another pair, Kappa Pegasi, detected in 1880, was found in 1892 to have more than completed a circuit in the interim.

Agnes M. (Agnes Mary) Clerke - A Popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century: Fourth Edition