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From: cunniff@hpfclq.UUCP
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Subject: Starchart: bug in yale.star?
Message-ID: <3780004@hpfclq.HP.COM>
Date: Fri, 4-Dec-87 18:33:43 EST
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Posted: Fri Dec  4 18:33:43 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 12-Dec-87 09:20:54 EST
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The Yale star data seems to have one (fairly large) bug: the
entries:

	050229+4105000SSK5z AURCapella
	051641+4600006SDG8a AURCapella

are contradictory (last time I looked, there was only one Capella).
I think the first is wrong: Zeta is generally dimmer than Alpha
in the standard naming scheme for stellar objects.  I note in
the file 'yaleformat' that somebody added the proper name 'Capella'
to the entry for Zeta; probably because it was the brightest star
in Auriga.  I don't have a star catalog handy, so I don't know
what Zeta's magnitude should be.  I would guess that it is between
2.98 (the magnitude of Epsilon) and 3.17 (the magnitude of Eta);
the average is about 3.07, so I've modified my yale.star so the
entry for Zeta is:

	050229+4105307SSK5z AUR

and I placed it after the entry for b MUS:

	124617-6807305SDB2b MUS

If anybody can tell me the REAL magnitude of Zeta, I would appreciate
it!

				Ross Cunniff
				Hewlett-Packard System Software Operation
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