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Weren't these RA/Dec labels called 'Harvard Designations'? Regards, Stan ----- Original Message ----- From: "Taichi Kato" <tkato@kusastro.kyoto-u.ac.jp> To: <vsnet-chat@ooruri.kusastro.kyoto-u.ac.jp>; <vsnet-id@ooruri.kusastro.kyoto-u.ac.jp> Sent: Friday, May 16, 2003 10:05 PM Subject: [vsnet-id 795] AAVSO names in SIMBAD > 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. > > It may be that some query algorithm in SIMBAD implements a simple > alphabetical priority function. If it is the case, this apparently needs > to be improved so that GCVS names are given the highest priority among > "V*"-class objects. > > Regards, > Taichi Kato >
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