In message <200012251538.AAA04314@ceres.kusastro.kyoto-u.ac.jp>, Taichi Kato <tkato@kusastro.kyoto-u.ac.jp> writes >Re: 'Q' numbers of 'The Astronomer' > > Guy M Hurst wrote: > >> Please let me know the names of contributors sending in 'Q' stars and I >> will endeavour to contact them to advise on the correct star names. > > Perhaps you (or anyone) can check such contributions by using the VSNET >search engine for reported observations. > > http://vsnet.kusastro.kyoto-u.ac.jp/vsnet/etc/searchobs.html > > The service is entirely public and completely free of charge. My own >logging has been already greatly supplemented by newly known identifications, >and will not provide much useful information for you purpose. Dear Taichi, I am extremely busy at the moment and have little time to investigate these queries, I did manage to log on to the site you gave but searches against those objects with a 'Q' number in your earlier list returned 'no data'. Why? I had understood it would generate names of observers you wished me to contact to persuade them to stop using these 'names'? Regards, Guy ---------------------------------------------------------------- Guy M Hurst, 16 Westminster Close, Basingstoke, Hants, RG22 4PP, England. Tel/FAX:(01256) 471074. International +441256471074 INTERNET: guy@tahq.demon.co.uk OR gmh@uk.ac.rl.star.ast WWW http://vsnet.demon.co.uk/astronomer ----------------------------------------------------------------