At 13:35 12/09/1997 -0400, you wrote:

>Sorry for the off-topic question but I know some of you out there are
>knowledgeable in the history of astronomy.  Does anyone know whether
>Ptolemy recorded Sirius as a red star?

Hello Clem,

I read on a french version of "Colours of the stars" by D. Malin and P.
Murdin p.88 that Ptolemy recorded Sirius as a red star. There is in this
book a bibliography on this subjet.

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