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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).
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
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.
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 29, 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.
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.
