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- The catalogue includes 18 star names approved by the IAU Executive Committee Working Group for Public Naming of Planets and Planetary Satellites in December 2015 (which included 5 ancient names and 14 new names proposed and voted on by the public via the NameExoWorlds contest), and 209 recently approved names from deliberations by the WGSN.
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In contemporary astronomy, 88 constellations are recognized by the International Astronomical Union (IAU). [1] Each constellation is a region of the sky bordered by arcs of right ascension and declination, together covering the entire celestial sphere.
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
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 24, 2016 · IAU Formally Approves 227 Star Names. Click to Enlarge. 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 colloquially for centuries.
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 ...
Many variable stars were discovered, stellar transients were investigated, and astrophysics with electric measurements of brightnesses and spectra of stars was developed. With the high number of investigated stars, new nomenclatures emerged, many of them relying on the constellation names.
Nov 28, 2016 · Late last week (November 24, 2016), the group that has traditionally given “official” names to things in space – the International Astronomical Union (IAU) – announced that it has now officially...
