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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.
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The IAU is the international astronomical organisation that brings together more than 10 000 professional astronomers from almost 100 countries. Its mission is to promote and safeguard the science of astronomy in all its aspects through international cooperation. The IAU also serves as the internationally recognised authority for assigning designat...
Dr. Eric Mamajek WGSN Chair Jet Propulsion Laboratory/Caltech, USA Tel: +1 818-354-2153 Cell: +1 818-393-4950 (Fax) Email: IAUWGSN@gmail.com Lars Lindberg Christensen IAU Press Officer Garching bei München, Germany Tel: +49 89 320 06 761 Cell: +49 173 38 72 621 Email: lars@eso.org
Dec 12, 2016 · The WGSN currently has 227 star names published on the IAU site under its Naming Stars page, many of which have been long-used by stargazers. In fact, the catalogue includes 18 star names that were approved by the ‘IAU Executive Committee Working Group for Public Naming of Planets and Planetary Satellites’ in December 2015, including 5 ...
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 28, 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.
The creation of a specialised IAU Working Group, the Working Group on Star Names (WGSN), was approved by the IAU Executive Committee in May 2016 to formalise star names that have been used
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 Planetary...
