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Re: AAVSO names in SIMBAD > I think it would be adequate to ask Brian Skiff to relay some message > to the SIMBAD people, but, could you (Brian) please ask the SIMBAD people > to avoid in "SIMBAD objects in reference" listing AAVSO names when there > are already GCVS names? I don't see any advantage to see "AAVSO 2230-17" > instead of seeing the formal name "HM Aqr" (and other well-known catalog > names in some other cases). This is very confusing (and even nonsense), > and I fear that the usage of such non-standard names and naming conventions > (both in name itself and format) promulgates through such a service. By the way, is there any object which *only* has an AAVSO designation, and not cataloged otherwise? Regards, Taichi Kato
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