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Nov 24, 2016 · WGSN has now established a new catalogue of IAU star names, with the first set of 227 approved names published on the IAU website. Composed of an international group of astronomers, the Working Group on Star Names (WGSN) is an initiative that stemmed from the IAU Division C (Education, Outreach, and Heritage).
WG Star Names (WGSN) was first approved as an IAU Working Group by the Ex- ecutive Committee and Division C in May 2016 and has become a functional working group.
The International Astronomical Union (IAU) established a Working Group on Star Names (WGSN) in May 2016 to catalog and standardize proper names for stars for the international astronomical community. [1] It operates under Division C – Education, Outreach and Heritage.
Nov 26, 2016 · The 227 names that have been released include 209 recently approved names by the WGSN, plus the 18 stars that the IAU Executive Committee Working Group for Public Naming of Planets and...
IAU approval comes mostly from its Working Group on Star Names, which has been publishing a "List of IAU-approved Star Names" since 2016. As of April 2022, the list included a total of 451 proper names of stars.
WSGN has since established a collection of standardized IAU star names, with the first catalogue of 227 approved stars having now been published on the IAU site.
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The WGSN has established and is maintaining a new catalogue of IAU star names, with the first set of 227 approved names published on the IAU website in the: Naming Stars Theme
