Variable Designations
Variable stars which do not have Bayer designations are given special designations which mark them out as variable stars.
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Famous quotes containing the word variable:
“Walked forth to ease my pain
Along the shore of silver streaming Thames,
Whose rutty bank, the which his river hems,
Was painted all with variable flowers,”
—Edmund Spenser (1552?–1599)