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  2. Bright Star Catalogue - Wikipedia

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    The Bright Star Catalogue, also known as the Yale Catalogue of Bright Stars, Yale Bright Star Catalogue, or just YBS, is a star catalogue that lists all stars of stellar magnitude 6.5 or brighter, which is roughly every star visible to the naked eye from Earth.

  3. List of brightest stars - Wikipedia

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    The Sun is the brightest star as viewed from Earth, at −26.78 mag. ... All of these stars have multiple valid names or catalogue designations.

  4. Tycho-2 Catalogue - Wikipedia

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    The astrometric reference catalogue contain positions, proper motions, and two-color photometric data for 2,539,913 of the brightest stars in the Milky Way. Components of double stars with separations down to 0.8 arcseconds are included. The catalogue is 99% complete to magnitudes of V~11.0 and 90% complete to V~11.5.

  5. List of astronomical catalogues - Wikipedia

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    HR — Bright Star Catalogue (Harvard Revised Catalogue) Hrg — L. Hargrave (double stars) Hrr — Harrington (telescopic asterisms) HΣ — Hermann Struve (double stars) HS — Hamburg Survey (quasars and blue stars) HSC — Hubble Source Catalog [21] (lists of sources from the Hubble Space Telescope) Hst — C.S. Hastings (double stars)

  6. 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 .

  7. Star catalogue - Wikipedia

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    The Guide Star Catalog is an online catalogue of stars produced for the purpose of accurately positioning and identifying stars satisfactory for use as guide stars by the Hubble Space Telescope program. The first version of the catalogue was produced in the late 1980s by digitizing photographic plates and contained about 20 million stars, out ...

  8. Lists of stars - Wikipedia

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    The Bright Star Catalog, Astronomical Data Center, NSSDC/ADC, 1991. Astronomiches Rechen-Institut Heidelberg — ARICNS Database for Nearby Stars Northern Arizona University database of nearby stars

  9. Bayer designation - Wikipedia

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    Detail of Bayer's chart for Orion showing the belt stars and Orion Nebula region, with both Greek and Latin letter labels visible. A Bayer designation is a stellar designation in which a specific star is identified by a Greek or Latin letter followed by the genitive form of its parent constellation's Latin name.