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Astronomy: The Struve Catalogue(s)
Looking at this entry on Wikipedia at the moment:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedrich_Georg_Wilhelm_von_Struve
That's the profile they currently have on the guy whose binary-star catalogue listings got prefixed as "Σ" when cited in articles in Astronomy, Sky and Telescope and Deep Sky Quarterly going back to my teenage years. I don't pretend to know all the star catalogues that have ever been published, and I doubt that I ever will. Even in this age of Wikipedia and SIMBAD.
But, while re-reading My Enemy, My Ally once more, I note that one of the "landmarks" of the story is a system catalogued as "Σ 285 Trianguli". And I find that SIMBAD doesn't really keep track of which stars were known by Struve catalogue numbers these days for whatever reason(s), but if there's a way to nail down which catalogues' listings the star is known by these days...?
Oh. If you're interested, here's the catalogue prefixes that Wikipedia currently knows to keep track of:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_astronomical_catalogues
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedrich_Georg_Wilhelm_von_Struve
That's the profile they currently have on the guy whose binary-star catalogue listings got prefixed as "Σ" when cited in articles in Astronomy, Sky and Telescope and Deep Sky Quarterly going back to my teenage years. I don't pretend to know all the star catalogues that have ever been published, and I doubt that I ever will. Even in this age of Wikipedia and SIMBAD.
But, while re-reading My Enemy, My Ally once more, I note that one of the "landmarks" of the story is a system catalogued as "Σ 285 Trianguli". And I find that SIMBAD doesn't really keep track of which stars were known by Struve catalogue numbers these days for whatever reason(s), but if there's a way to nail down which catalogues' listings the star is known by these days...?
Oh. If you're interested, here's the catalogue prefixes that Wikipedia currently knows to keep track of:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_astronomical_catalogues