Abstract
THE VARIABLE STAR R LEPORIS.—This highly-coloured star, the variability of which was detected by Schmidt in 1855, is calculated to be at a maximum on the 28th of the present month. The mean period appears to be about 438 days, 230 days being occupied in passing from minimum to maximum, and 208 days from maximum to minimum. Probably the irregularities of variation which have been suspected are to be mainly attributed to the difficulty attending comparisons of a star of such intensely red colour. With regard to the colour, however, there is something more than a suspicion that it has sensibly diminished in intensity since attention was first directed to it (Hind, 1845, October). We are almost wholly indebted to Schmidt, who makes such excellent use of the favourable astronomical conditions under which he is placed at Athens, for our knowledge of the law of variation in R Leporis.
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