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Did Jacobus Cornelius Kapteyn do the computation of the position of the stars in the Southern Hemisphere?

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He computed the positions of the stars of the Southern Hemisphere photographed by Sir David Gill and in 1904 announced the discovery of two streams of stars moving in opposite directions in the plane of the Milky Way.

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