Monday, October 24, 2011

a descent of designations

In an attempt to understand the double star designation I had stumbled across in SkyTools3 on the weekend, STI, for the pair STI1454 (near HD 5005), I did some googling. And quickly found a PDF document on Lookum Observatory web site. The file has over 300 designations! Crikey. It is also provided in HTML and Excel formats, as noted on the Double Star Tables and Catalogs page.

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Link is dead as of 30 Apr 2014. Found it, a 2011 reference, in the Way Back Machine.

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