harper@utmanitou.UUCP (12/05/87)
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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