[AZ-Observing] Re: What are "GN xx.xx.xx" and/or "BFS" objects ??
- From: Brian Skiff <bas@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: az-observing@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 01 Nov 2015 10:39:56 -0700
On Sun, 2015-11-01 at 09:38 -0700, David M. Douglass wrote:
I am working on a personal long term project, imaging most of the SH2-
objects in Ha.
A few nights ago, I imaged SH2-156 (aka IC 1470).
.
.
.
At the bottom of that page, he does the cross-reference between the "GN" id
and the "BFS" id.
But what are they?
I emailed him, and asked.
He responded that:
"This reference (GN) is from a collection called "Atlas of Galactic
Nebulae", authored by Thorsten Neckel and Hans Vehrenberg."
This is a BOOK, still available, but apparently published in Germany (I
think).
"The "BSF" designation is from the CDS (Centre de Donnees Astronomiques de
Strasbourg) Aladin Previewer."
I can't seem to locate any other reference to these items.
Does anyone know of other sites where additional information, such as
"tables", "cross-references" etc can be found ??
SIMBAD is the bibliographic database for astronomy:
http://simbad.u-strasbg.fr/simbad
Notice at this front page, under 'Documentation', the
item 'Nomenclature Dictionary'. Go to this link and
key-in 'BFS' in the window, hit 'submit info...'.
This gives you a bunch of entries that include 'BFS'.
The one without any square brackets for the year is
the one you want. That acronym is highlighted, and
clicking on it gives you a page with the citation to
the source paper, including a link to the complete
on-line catalogue. Leo Blitz is one of the main guys
surveying the gas+dust along the galactic plane.
Back at the SIMBAD front page, you can do searches
by name (if you know it correctly) and by coordinates
to find publications, data, and images about that
object.
It's nice to know that Marty Germano is still
in action: he's been in the astro-imaging game for
at least 35 years!
\Brian
--
See message header for info on list archives or unsubscribing, and please
send personal replies to the author, not the list.
Other related posts:
