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From: harper@utmanitou.UUCP
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Subject: Re: StarChart program and Yale star data
Message-ID: <413@utmanitou.toronto.edu>
Date: Fri, 4-Dec-87 21:12:58 EST
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Posted: Fri Dec  4 21:12:58 1987
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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.

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John Harper    "There's someone in my head, but it's not me" -- Pink Floyd
Dept. of Astronomy, U. Toronto, Scarborough Campus
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