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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).
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 ...
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...
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.
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 WGSN explicitly recognized the names of exoplanets and their host stars approved by the Executive Committee Working Group Public Naming of Planets and Planetary Satellites, including the names of stars adopted during the 2015 NameExoWorlds campaign.
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
