ASTRONOMY: Lalande 8 AKA...?
Aug. 25th, 2024 09:28 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dewlineI went looking and it turns out that Jérôme Lalande's star catalogue has been preserved and translated to English.
Having since discovered by such means that Lalande 8 - from John M. Ford's Star Trek novel The Final Reflection - is in fact a real star, I am now trying to find out what names or catalogue numbers that star is currently best known by. Any suggestions on the matter? Apparently, as of 1847, it was deemed to be in the constellation Cassiopeia?
Having since discovered by such means that Lalande 8 - from John M. Ford's Star Trek novel The Final Reflection - is in fact a real star, I am now trying to find out what names or catalogue numbers that star is currently best known by. Any suggestions on the matter? Apparently, as of 1847, it was deemed to be in the constellation Cassiopeia?
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Date: 2024-08-27 03:12 am (UTC)It appears that only a few stars are still commonly referred to by their Lalande designations, most notably Lalande 21185 (aka Gliese 411, a nearby red dwarf with planets), so I'm not having much luck.