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Without doubt Otto was a careful and cautious observer: the reliance that is still placed on his double-star measures is sufficient testimony of that, but we also have the evidence of contemporaries such as Piazzi Smyth who saw him at work (Chapter 7). If still more evidence is needed, the work on artificial double stars, or Otto’s requiring Nyrén to repeat the aberration observations --both described in the previous chapter-- should provide it. Even the best observers make mistakes, however, and Otto was for a while misled into believing that he had made an important discovery in his own field of double-star observation.
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Batten, A.H. (1988). The Companion of Procyon and the Transits of Venus. In: Resolute and Undertaking Characters: The Lives of Wilhelm and Otto Struve. Astrophysics and Space Science Library, vol 139. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-2883-1_13
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