Re: (IAAC) Burnham's Stars

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Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2003 18:49:03 -0500
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Another good resource for double stars is the Washington Double Star Catalog

http://ad.usno.navy.mil/wds/

The designation for almach is 02039+4220

Scott Hogsten

At 04:49 PM 1/16/2003 +0000, you wrote:
>
>I hope this is the right place to discuss this, I have been using the
>Program Celestia (http://ennui.shatters.net/celestia/) along with Skymap
>Pro9 and Burnham's handbook to explore the Local Galaxie area in 3D, mainly
>with a view to seeing double stars in their "environment" so to speak, I
>happened to start with Book 1 Andromeda and had got to Almach, Gamma And,
>which Burnham has listed as a K2 or K3 Star, but which both Celestia and
>Skymap list as a B8V, this seems quite a difference, what could have led
>earlier Astronomers to list it as a K type?
>
>Kim Gowney.
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(IAAC) Burnham's Stars

From: "Kim Gowney" <kapeji@sniffout.com>