Re: Newbie: trying to find 'Hope'


> Simbad at
> http://simbad.u-strasbg.fr/sim-fid.pl
> or
> http://simbad.u-strasbg.fr/sim-fsam.pl
> list no star at those coordinates
> (12 23 8 +4 44 41.604)
>
It list no star at these coordinates because it doesn't search through all
of the star catalogues.

Try http://archive.ast.cam.ac.uk/viz-bin/VizieR

put the star coordinates in in the box marked "Target Name", select target
radius to 0.5' and press "Find Data", and you'll get multiple references to
a ~14th magnitude star at that location.


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