FINDING STUFF

Star Names

See: http://www.ras.ucalgary.ca/~gibson/starnames/ and http://simbad.u-strasbg.fr/simbad/ (SIMBAD)

“Arabic Names”: Antares, Aldebaran, Sirius, Canopus. …..

Designations with genitive name of constellation:

ScorpiusScorpii, TaurusTauri, Canis MajorCanis Majoris, etc.

Flamsteed Designations: 21 Sco, 87 Tau., 9 CMa, ???

Bayer Designations: Sco, Tau, CMa, Car

(NOTE: is sometimes listed as “alpha” but shortened to “alf”!)

Planetarium Software: http://astro.nineplanets.org/astrosoftware.html

Catalog Numbers

Henry Draper Numbers: HD 148487, HD 29139, HD 48915, HD 45348

SAO Numbers: SAO 184415, SAO 94027, SAO 151881, SAO 234480

Variable Star Numbers

R, S, T, U, V, W, X, Y, Z, A, B, C, D,….RR, RS, RT, ….RA, RB, RC, ….SA, SB, …AA, AB, V# Const.

Examples: RR Lyrae, SS Cyg, V1016 Cyg, T Tau

Coordinates:

Right Ascension & Declination (RA and DEC or and )

Ecliptic - Longitude & Latitude - and

Galactic - Longitude & Latitude - l^II and b^II

Coordinate Conversion & Finding Things: http://www.roman-britain.org/astronomy/astro.htm#

Is it up? Find out with StarAlt: http://www.ing.iac.es/ds/staralt/index.php

Solar System Objects

http://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/?horizons NASA’s Horizons system I use this one extensively for planning observations…

Secchi Yoshida’s website http://www.aerith.net/index.html is used even by professional astronomers who study comets.

Lots of Stuff:

http://www.seds.org/ especially go to External Links > Links

Publications: ADS and SIMBAD: Astronomers can’t survive without these!

http://adswww.harvard.edu/ NASA’s Astrophysics Data System (ADS) particularly http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abstract_service.html

and http://simbad.u-strasbg.fr/simbad/ (SIMBAD again)