Unidentified nebula ["Nova"] meteorological Johnny Carey

Johnny Carey

had one of his first ever motor rides in this car

using the City sword to prod the posterior of a visitor who leaps over the parapet of Mansion House

In 1977 he was killed in a road accident in Italy

his boots and his shirt

Unidentified nebula ["Nova"] meteorological Johnny CareyPlate 10 figure 30 for the paper "Observations of nebulae and clusters of stars, made at Slough, with a twenty feet reflector, between the years 1825 and 1833", by Sir John Frederick William Herschel, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, v. 123 (1833), pp. 359 505. The object is inscribed verso "Nova". Herschel's paper explains this term: "When no previous version of a nebular or cluster could be found in the writings of former observers,