If anyone wants to find Hercules X-1, it's at these coordinates: RA 16 57 49.83, dec +35 20 32.6. It's also magnitude 13, not visible to the naked eye (about 0.

If anyone wants to find Hercules X-1, it's at these coordinates: RA 16 57 49.83, dec +35 20 32.6. It's also magnitude 13, not visible to the naked eye (about 0.00064% as bright as Vega, which it is fairly close to.) Also, one reason why the scientist mentioned in the article didn't look at his star is because he couldn't know where it is. We can guess that the graduate student in question was Ethan J Schreier, who was in the MIT area until 1973, and the position of X-1 wasn't known until 1973, three years after the launch of the satellite. On the other hand, if I was that scientist, I would still have looked in general at the Hercules constellation, out of pure curiosity. (The scientist in question certainly isn't Gursky, as he was a graduate student decades prior, but certainly also could've been Harvey Tananbaum. I had no information on been R. Levinson, Edwin M. Kellogg, and Giacconi [0] was a student at the University of Milan in the 40s.) [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riccardo_Giacconi https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riccardo_Giacconi