Books I'm Reading Whilst Job-Hunting

Uncompromising Honor by David Weber. Which I've finished an initial read-through of, but going back to specific passages for effect and clarification now.

Re-reading...

My Enemy, My Ally by dduane. The first of her "Rihannsu" novels for the Star Trek: TOS line. A lot of stuff's been set aside by the TV and movie people, but as an espionage/adventure/space opera yarn, it still holds up over 30 years later.

So do Articles of the Federation and A Singular Destiny, both by Keith R.A. DeCandido.

More later...

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

Canada: Women in High-Profile Political Office

And now I wonder if this aspect of things was also planned.

In any case, I find it disturbing.

https://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2019/04/17/canadas-embrace-of-women-leaders-under-scrutiny-after-notley-defeat-in-alberta-election_a_23713675/