Miss Leavitt's Stars

Errata

p. 14. The second sentence of the second paragraph after the section break should say that a fifth magnitude star is 100 times dimmer than one of zero (not the first) magnitude.

p. 17. The last sentence of the second paragraph should refer to the Pleiades as a cluster rather than a constellation.

p. 24. There is a typo in the caption: Swann should be Swan.

p. 44. The first Cepheid was actually Eta Aquilae, which was discovered a few weeks earlier than the eponymous Delta Cephei.

p. 77. Another typo in a caption: Herber should be Heber.

p. 85. The street where HSL lived with her mother was Linnaean not Linnean.

p. 101. The final sentence of the first full paragraph, should, of course, say millions of years not millions of light-years.