Didn't these catalogues used to be called CoD? I didn't bother to read these messages at first as it wasn't an exciting title. But if you drop the 'o' , do you drop the 'P' in the CPD and cause confusion? In any case, with the rate of nova outbursts at about 3/year, you're probably looking at a possibility of a couple of novae at most. Surely the cartographers would have recognised a nova? Oddly enough, we found this a very good atlas in the south - better than the SAO - but not as good as the more modern Atlas Australis. I still use this latter at times, as do others. Regards, Stan ---------- > From: Taichi Kato <tkato@kusastro.kyoto-u.ac.jp> > To: vsnet-chat@kusastro.kyoto-u.ac.jp > Subject: [vsnet-chat 2134] Re: Missing CD stars? > Date: Monday, July 19, 1999 8:16 PM > > Re: [vsnet-chat 2130] Re: Missing CD stars? > > Well, as reported in vsnet-obs 21509, Yoshida-san discovered a variable > star MisV0055, at which position there seem to be neither GSC not USNO > equivalents (the field looks almost blank for brighter stars). An entry > for Cordova Durchmusterung is, however, located very close to the reported > object. I wonder whether the existence of this CD star has been yet > confirmed or whether Yoshida-san rediscovered a missing CD star. > > Regards, > Taichi Kato >