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Subject: Re: LX200: SAO Database.
From: Martin Tom Brown
Reply To: mapug@shore.net
Date: Sun Jun 23 03:17:12 1996

In message <Pine.ULT.3.93.960622222317.6041A-100000@chinook.halcyon.com> "James W. Burrows" writes:
>
> Several people on this list have expressed a desire for an ASCII
> list of the LX200's SAO objects. I have generated this by attempting
> to match the 15,928 SAO numbers in the LX200 library (magnitude < 7.0)
> with those in the SKY CATALOGUE 2000.0 (c) 1989 Sky Publishing Corp.

Many thanks - quite a useful offline excercise.

> A few sample lines from this file (SAO.ASC):
>
> 308 2.02 1 alf UMi, Polaris (v), A1477 UMI
> 500 5.95 A2348
> 594 6.70 SS Cep (v)
> 2770 4.23 22 eps UMi (v), A10242

> I'm not quite sure what the A-numbers mean;

Aitken's double star catalogue number, for Dec +90 to -30
& stars further south than -30 may well have B numbers assigned
arbitrarily to their number in Innes's Southern Double Star catalogue.
(Certainly a1477 is polaris)

Regards,

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Martin Brown  <martin@nezumi.demon.co.uk>     __                CIS: 71651,470
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