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They had other designations, such as GSC, USNO or something. I don't know of any stars (within a reasonable magnitude range) with no designation. The USNO names seem to be ungodly long. I'm sure that's their advantage in some way or other. The GSC seems to be pretty a good choice when all else fails. You certainly see GSC names listed on a lot of papers and such. Brian's message implied a heirarchy like: 1. HD 2. BD 3. GCVS Where would we go next? In my mind it would go more like: 1. GCVS 2. HD 3. BD 4. GSC 5. USNO-A2.0 Cheers, Michael Koppelman On Sunday, May 18, 2003, at 11:33 AM, Thom Gandet wrote: > As for the mare's nest of designations (ROTSE, ASAS, etc.), they are > assigned when the object was first "discovered" with the instrument > or satellite. In the vast majority, there is no other designation.
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