[vsnet-chat 4808] Re: Variable star charts for southern observers

[Brian Skiff <bas@lowell.edu>]

     Kato-san wrote:

>> Please...advise the same thing to [professionals]...

     The pros are perhaps even more likely to do this!  This doesn't mean
you should imitate them.  It's okay for observers to use some short form for
convenience while taking data (scribbled notes or maybe a CCD frame header).
Just don't publish the truncated name on a chart, in a database, in a paper,
or in a catalogue:  it just adds confusion to the already confused literature.

>> Some examples...please let us know which is correct and which is wrong?

     Poking around in SIMBAD yields these full-name IDs and some improved
coordinates.  It should be easy to use the positions in the CV catalogue to
search in SIMBAD for other cases.  (SIMBAD, by the way, has all the names
correctly linked.)

1RXS J0001-6707 ---> 1RXS J000154.2-670749 = EC 23593-6724:
                     0 01 55.09  -67 07 43.4 (2000, UCAC1); 2MASS J-K=0.35

EXO 0329-2606 ---> EXO 0329.9-2606 = VY For

RX J0501-0359 ---> RX J0501.7-0359 = HY Eri

RX J0558+6753 ---> RX J0558.3+6753:  5 58 17.89  +67 53 46.1 (2000, 2MASS);
                   2MASS J-K=0.4

RX J0643-2052:  did this one, yes?

1E 0643-1648 ---> 1E 0643.0-1648 = HL CMa

RX J191059.6+285639:  okay

RX J2123.7+421 ---> RX J2123.7+4217 = V2069 Cyg:  21 23 44.80  +42 18 01.6 
                    (2000, 2MASS); 2MASS J-K=0.6

AX J2315-592 (okay) = CP Tuc



\Brian

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