Reply To: Preparing for the next eruption of T CrB

[Steve Knight]

I’ve always been slightly irritated by calling T CrB “The Blaze Star” and had assumed it was a comparitively recent Americanism. Apologies to all Americans for my prejudice. It turns out I was wrong, it was first used in the Sept 15th 1869 edition of English Mechanic & Mirror of Science. I will now be using the term at every opportunity!

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