STUDIES IN STELLAR STATISTICS. II. 43 
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(18) i = eval ES Cy!" SE eg! À 
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CC Din CU te Cage. 
and, conversely, 
iM = 0 2109,00 «[E. 20 
(P^ em Oz ete Cia eta Cr 
(187) 9 ze 83,4. 3 €x ale CE , 
= 0 750125188 „0 
= Qd CERO ee 
19. It may be of interest to have the sphærical coordinates of 
the axes of the Galaxy and therefore I collect them here as well as 
those of the centre and the anticentre. 
The centre of the Milky Way is, as already stated, situated in 
the square Z,, in the constellation Carina, with the coordinates 
a = fils eU 
9 82 
or 
dit 
The anticentre (h. e. the place of the sun as seen from the cen- 
tre of the Galaxy) is in the square B, in the constellation Cygnus and 
has the coordinates 
a = 295°.55 = 19*.7o 
à = + 550,62 
The north pole of the Milky Way lies in the square C;, in the 
Constellation Coma Berenices and has the coordinates 
a = 184,34 = 12”,29 
0 = + 28°74 . 
The south pole of the Milky Way lies in the square D,, in the 
Constellation Piscis austrinus and has the coordinates 
a = 10/32 = (hee 
d= — 28074 . 
The positive X-axis (= projection of the line centre-sun on the 
XY-plane of the Galaxy) lies in the square B,, in the Constellation 
Cygnus and has the coordinates 
