Word: fading
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...investigations, which will continue for weeks, are at present directed to find whether it will follow the course of such temporary stars, which burst into their full brilliancy almost immediately and gradually fade away -- lasting sometimes weeks and sometimes years. The Observatory's first trial shows its brightness to have greatly increased by Friday night over that announced by Dr. Anderson for the preceding evening until on Friday it was much brighter than the polar star. The exact position on three nights has been measured with the meridian circle and the spectrum has been founed by a photographic attachment...