RT @DrBeaVillarroel: Jun Yang at Harvard University and I have submitted a paper. We examine the original photographic plate material for t…

Jun Yang at Harvard University and I have submitted a paper. We examine the original photographic plate material for two famous multiple-transient events from the Palomar Sky Survey: the nine transients of April 12, 1950, and the triple transient of July 19, 1952. The candidates are present on the photographic material and appear sharp and compact. They look just as they do in the digitized images -- star-like, yet a little sharper and rounder than the other stars in the field, just as one wo...