Thomas
Anderson
Born in
Edinburgh, Scotland on February 6th 1853, Thomas Anderson would
discover two important novae, Nova Aurigae 1892 which reached a magnitude of
3.8 and Nova Persei 1901 which reached magnitude 0.2.
It has since been classified as GK Persei as
it appears to have several outbursts since its discovery. However since 1990
these outbursts have become a little more regular typically brightening by
about 2 magnitudes with the outbursts lasting a couple of
months.
Thus, GK
Persei seems to have changed from a classical nova to something resembling a
typical dwarf nova-type cataclysmic variable star.
Anderson
produced his own star charts and discovered over 50 new variable stars.
He died
on the 31st March 1932.
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