[vsnet-chat 5869] Re: GSC vs Tyc2

[Brian Skiff <Brian.Skiff@lowell.edu>]

>>  One of the most frustrating was a star
>>  which Guide 6 describes as 6846 174. It's description in that puts it down
>>  as a white dwarf but I don't think that's correct.
>>  ...this comes out as a single star but a bit ragged.
>>  Your photometry makes it into three stars...

     This star is better referred to as HD HD 164493.  The Houk classification
is B8:II.  Though certainly not a white dwarf, Houk does tend to make the
luminosity classes of B stars too high (bright);  this is more likely to
be an ordinary giant (III) or even a dwarf (V).
     The companions that Arne's photometry evidently separates out are
at 6" north-northeast and 14" south-southeast.

\Brian

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