cunniff@hpfclq.UUCP (12/05/87)
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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