[vsnet-chat 3617] Re: USNO Ax.0 "identifications"

[crawl@zoom.co.uk]

At 10:59 21/09/00 -0700, Brian Skiff wrote:

>     _My_opinion_, in general, is to avoid giving USNO-A names at all, simply
>because of the confusion already existing, and because these names are
>quite transient, and will soon be replaced by USNO-Bx.x, etc.  In
publication,
>I would suggest noting a very faint star appearing only in that catalogue
>with a phrase something like "identifiable with a USNO-A2.0 star located
at..."
>and not give the number at all.
>
>\Brian

Yes I know, and yes I agree.

But what yourself and Arne tend to forget is that these much maligned USNO
Ax.0 "names" are plastered all over the place anyway, so I thought it'd be
at least nice of folk to give a reference to where they've got them from,
rather than leaving them as "magically" derived.

I myself do not know how to calculate these USNO Ax.0 "names", and
ironically have to use a DOS executable I downloaded from USNOFS when I
need to check what object someone else is on about.  There is a nice little
DOS executable that generates these, written by a fellow called Henden.

However, I've just done a quickie search on IBVS and found no use of USNO A
"names", so maybes it is only a vsnet problem??????????????????

John

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