Can you identify these Star Catalogues??

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Can you identify these Star Catalogues??

Post #1by Malenfant » 24.08.2005, 01:37

Can anyone please identify for me the star catalogues that these stars come from?

DK +32 2390
HC+03 1919
BK-05 9201
SS +28 9357
O'Neil 723

The DK, HC, BK, and SS catalogues aren't listed on the ARICNS index and those stars aren't in Celestia, and I need to know where these stars are located... :( I don't know if HIPPARCOS found them either - I have no HIP numbers for them.

A web search doesn't yield much (other than some mentions in distance tables on solstation.com so I know they're real, but no details there), my google-fu is all used up on this one... :(

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Post #2by selden » 24.08.2005, 10:43

Simbad is the best online database for looking up astronomical objects of all kinds. It isn't complete, but it includes hundreds of catalogs.

http://simbad.u-strasbg.fr/sim-fid.pll

Unfortunately, as you say, those designations aren't listed. There are several catalogs that have those initials, but they don't use the numeric format that you show.

Solstation is a "secondary source" and may contain typos. You need to find out exactly what papers originally mentioned those objects.
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Post #3by Malenfant » 25.08.2005, 16:55

OK, I have since come to the conclusion that these are entirely fictional stars that solstation thought were real (they're in the star catalogue for the 2300AD roleplaying game, which otherwise uses the real (and now obsolete) Gliese 2 catalogue). Unless anyone knows of a way that these stars could have Gliese numbers of 960.0 or higher....


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