[Kstars-devel] [PATCH] Show names for 'a Centauri' etc.

[Prakash]

On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 04:56:47PM -0600, James Bowlin wrote:
> On Tue July 15 2008, Akarsh Simha wrote:
> > But I noticed that there was actually a star called a Centauri that
> > matched the star named .a Cen in our catalogs (RA, Dec,
> > etc). (Wikipedia on 'A Centauri' has a disambiguation link to 'a
> > Centauri')
> >
> > Is this purely a coincidence, or are these star names actually
> > correct?
> 
> Any similarity to actual star names, living or dead, is purely 
> coincidental.  Those were the stars I needed to make constellation
> lines like those used in H. A. Rey's "The Stars: A New Way to See
> Them".  The brightest unnamed star in a constellation that I needed
> was give .a, the next brightest, .b and so on.
> 
> -- 
> Peace, James

Actually it so happened that a centauri and b centauri are existing
stars, and interestingly they had the same RA and Dec values. I din't
know that these were your inventions, thanks for the information.

Regards
Prakash