The Centennial of the DIscovery of SS Cygni
Volume 26 number 1 (1998)
- Martha L. Hazen
- Harvard-Smithsonian Center
Abstract
The variability of SS Cygni was discovered 100 years ago by Miss L.D. Wells at the Harvard College Observatory. Details of its discovery cannot be found; early plates indicate a discovery date shortly before September 23, 1896.