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During the Triennium, WGSN approved additional names for the IAU Catalog of Star Names: Geminga for the pulsar PSR B0633+17 in Gemini, and Rana for δ Eri (HR 1136). The WGSN also recognizes the 20 new star names added via the NameExoWorlds 2022. ‡ https://www.iau.org/public/themes/naming_stars/ ¶ https://www.iau.org/static/administration ...
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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 11, 2017 · The International Astronomical Union’s Working Group on Star Names formally approved 86 new names for stars, which are now in the IAU stellar name catalogue. The catalogue now contains the approved names of 313 stars.
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 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.
Nov 26, 2016 · The IAU is looking to locate as many ancient names as possible, then incorporate them into an official IAU-approved database with more modern stars.
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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
