RE: Loactions of Stars (was RE: [FT] Size of "Countries" in FT)

On Fri, 27 Nov 1998, Moody, Danny M. wrote:
> according to what catalog you are looking at.  Unfortunately, there is
> no really good cross reference of names between catalogs.  The best
you
> could do is look up a star according to RA and decl in each catalog.

well, the gliese 3 data (www.clark.net/~nyrath has a copy somewhere)
does
list the gliese, durchmusterug, giclas and a bunch of other codes, and
has
some real names, like APL Cen for alpha centauri. it's not much to go
on,
though.

Tom