er's track.

Well, where nobody positively knows, everybody has free choice. In the
meantime, look at the spot in the sky where that little star made its
appearance and underwent its marvelous transformation, for, even if you
can see no remains of it there, you will feel your interest in the
problem it has presented, and in the whole subject of astronomy, greatly
heightened and vivified, as the visitor to the field of Waterloo becomes
a lover of history on the spot.

The remaining objects of special interest in Auriga may be briefly
mentioned: 26, triple star, magnitudes five, eight, and eleven,
distances 12", p. 268 deg., and 26", p. 113 deg.; 14, triple star, magnitudes
five, seven and a half, and eleven, distances 14", p. 224 deg., and 12.6",
p. 342 deg., the last difficult for moderate apertures; lambda, double,
magnitudes five and nine, distance 121", p. 13 deg.; epsilon, variable,
generally of third magnitude, but has been seen of only four and a half
magnitude; 41, double, magnitudes five and six, distance 8", p. 354 deg.;
996, 1067, 1119, and 1166, clusters all well worth inspection, 1119
being especially beautiful.

The inconspicuous Lynx furnishes some fine telescopic objects, all
grouped near the northwestern corner of the constellation. Without a
six-inch telescope it would be a waste of time to attack the double star
4, whose components are of sixth and eighth magnitudes, distance 0.8",
p. 103 deg.; but its neighbor, 5, a fine triple, is within our reach, the
magnitudes being six, ten, and eight, distances 30", p. 139 deg., and 96",
p. 272 deg.. In 12 Lyncis we find one of the most attractive of triple
stars, which in good seeing weather is not beyond the powers of a
three-inch glass, although we shall have a far more satisfactory view of
it with the four-inch. The components are of the sixth, seventh, and
eighth magnitudes, distances 1.4", p. 117 deg., and 8.7", p. 304 deg.. A
magnifying power which just suffices clearly to separate the disks of
the two nearer stars makes this a fine sight. A beautiful contrast of
colors belongs to the double star 14, but unfortunately the star is at
present very close, the distance between its sixth and seventh magnitude
components not exceeding 0.8", position angle 64 deg.. Sigma 958 is a pretty
double, both stars being of the sixth magnitude, distance 5", p. 257 deg..
Still finer is Sigma 1009, a double, whose stars are both a little above
the seventh magnitude and ne