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2. Stellar designations and names - Wikipedia

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   The Bright Star Catalogue, which is a star catalogue listing all stars of apparent magnitude 6.5 or brighter, or roughly every star visible to the naked eye from Earth, contains 9,096 stars. [1] The most voluminous modern catalogues list on the order of a billion stars, out of an estimated total of 200 to 400 billion in the Milky Way .

3. Template:Lists of stars by constellation - Wikipedia

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   Template: Lists of stars by constellation. 12 languages. ... Download QR code; Print/export Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects Wikidata item ...

4. List of proper names of stars - Wikipedia

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   In 2016, the International Astronomical Union (IAU) organized a Working Group on Star Names (WGSN) [2] to catalog and standardize proper names for stars. The WGSN's first bulletin, dated July 2016, [3] included a table of 125 stars comprising the first two batches of names approved by the WGSN (on 30 June and 20 July 2016) together with names of stars adopted by the IAU Executive Committee ...

5. Astronomical naming conventions - Wikipedia

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   Different star catalogues then have different naming conventions for what goes after the initialism, but modern catalogs tend to follow a set of generic rules for the data formats used. The IAU does not recognize the commercial practice of selling fictitious star names by commercial star-naming companies. [3]

6. Lists of star names - Wikipedia

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   In astronomy, star names, in contrast to star designations, are proper names of stars that have emerged from usage in pre-modern astronomical traditions. Lists of these names appear in the following articles: List of Arabic star names; List of Chinese star names; List of proper names of stars: traditional proper names in modern usage around ...

7. IAU Working Group on Star Names - Wikipedia

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   establish IAU guidelines for the proposal and adoption of names for stars, carry out a search of the literature for candidate names, adopt new unique names for stars of scientific and historical value, assemble and disseminate an official IAU star name catalog. (The current version is titled "List of IAU-approved Star Names". [3])