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Nov 24, 2016 · The WGSN is archiving these names from the numerous different sources, and investigating opportunities to incorporate names from ancient astronomical traditions around the world into an official, IAU-approved list of star names for use by astronomers, navigators and the general public.
Among them, 22 main stars of the IAU constellations do not have IAU-recognized proper names. Hence, there are roughly 8000 naked eye-stars between 4 and 6.5 mag
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 ...
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.
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...
Jun 1, 2018 · List of IAU-approved Star Names as of 1 June 2018. In 2016, the IAU mobilised the Working Group on Star Names (WGSN) under its Division C (Education, Outreach, and Heritage), whose purpose was to formally catalogue the names of stars, beginning with the brightest and best-known.
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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
