Mr Baxendell of Manchester discovered on March 19th 1862 a new variable star in the constellation of Taurus about 19 minutes of arc from the place of the nebula discovered by by Mr Hind in 1852. (This nebula was NGC 1555 associated with the variable star T Tauri).
The star discovered by Mr Baxendell will be known as U Tauri
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