Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!lsuc!utmanitou!harper From: harper@utmanitou.UUCP Newsgroups: comp.sources.d Subject: Re: StarChart program and Yale star data Message-ID: <413@utmanitou.toronto.edu> Date: Fri, 4-Dec-87 21:12:58 EST Article-I.D.: utmanito.413 Posted: Fri Dec 4 21:12:58 1987 Date-Received: Tue, 8-Dec-87 05:47:57 EST References: <3667@uunet.UU.NET> Reply-To: harper@manitou.UUCP (John Harper) Organization: Scarborough Campus, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada. Lines: 29 Keywords: StarChart, Yale, oops Summary: A nova in the data file! The Yale star catalogue posted with the starchart programs has a blunder among the brighter stars listed. In the original posting of the catalogue, a few stars had garbled magnitudes (which became 0's) and were left out. One of these was zeta Aurigae, which is a naked-eye star south-west of Capella. It seems to have re-entered the catalogue, but with a magnitude of 0, rather than its correct magnitude of 3.80 (as indicated in the Yale Bright Star Catalogue). This star sits on line 4 of the newly posted catalogue, and is mis-identified as Capella (which is correctly identified 2 lines further down). It looks peculiar to plot the region around 5 hrs RA, +40deg dec and discover two 0'th mag. stars named Capella. Anyway, the entry for this star should be 050229+4105380SSK5z AUR and belongs at about line 407. Thanks to Alan Paeth for making his efforts available to the rest of us. ------ John Harper "There's someone in my head, but it's not me" -- Pink Floyd Dept. of Astronomy, U. Toronto, Scarborough Campus { hao!utai, utzoo!utai} manitou!harper harper@manitou.toronto.edu