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• 02:41, 15 November 2024 Ericmamajek talk contribs created page Alsephina (creating Alsephina)
• 00:23, 13 October 2024 Ericmamajek talk contribs moved page Template:Noctua to Noctua (create new page on extinct constellation Noctua)
• 11:21, 15 July 2024 Ericmamajek talk contribs uploaded File:VanDalen2000 page173.png
• 11:21, 15 July 2024 Ericmamajek talk contribs created page File:VanDalen2000 page173.png
• 11:15, 15 July 2024 Ericmamajek talk contribs uploaded File:Toucan1575 Thevat.jpg
• 11:15, 15 July 2024 Ericmamajek talk contribs created page File:Toucan1575 Thevat.jpg
• 12:08, 5 July 2024 Ericmamajek talk contribs uploaded File:Eric rana2.jpg
• 12:08, 5 July 2024 Ericmamajek talk contribs created page File:Eric rana2.jpg
• 12:06, 5 July 2024 Ericmamajek talk contribs uploaded File:Eric rana.jpg
• 12:06, 5 July 2024 Ericmamajek talk contribs created page File:Eric rana.jpg
• 12:02, 5 July 2024 Ericmamajek talk contribs created page Rana (Created page with "modern name for del Eri = HR 1136; astrophysical importance: one of the first (rare) exemplars of “subgiants” recognized. ==Etymology and History== The star was called "Rana Secunda" in Piazzi's Palermo Catalog (1814; "Praecipuarum Stellarum Inerrantium Positiones Mediae Ineunte Saeculo XIX. Ex Observationibus Habitis In Specula Panormitana Ab anno 1792 ad annum 1813"), however this appears to have been shortened to "Rana" in later works. The name appears to have...")
• 11:57, 5 July 2024 Ericmamajek talk contribs uploaded File:Eric Argelander.jpg
• 11:57, 5 July 2024 Ericmamajek talk contribs created page File:Eric Argelander.jpg
• 11:55, 5 July 2024 Ericmamajek talk contribs created page Argelander’s Star (Created page with "modern name for HD 103095 = HR 4550 ==Etymology and History== The star was first catalogued as Groombridge 1830 (Groombridge, 1838, “A Catalogue of Circumpolar Stars”; Stephen Groombridge 1755-1832), but F.W.A. Argelander (1799-1875) first reported as the star with highest known proper motion in 1842 (at 7”/yr it is still 3rd highest proper motion star behind Barnard’s Star and Kapteyn’s Star). The name appeared in Peters (1853) “On the Parallax of Argel...")
• 11:51, 5 July 2024 Ericmamajek talk contribs uploaded File:Eric vanMaanen.png
• 11:51, 5 July 2024 Ericmamajek talk contribs created page File:Eric vanMaanen.png
• 11:50, 5 July 2024 Ericmamajek talk contribs created page Van Maanen’s Star (Created page with " modern name for GJ 35 = HIP 3829, Third white dwarf identified, and first and nearest solitary white dwarf. ==Etymology and History== Appeared as “van Maanen’s Star” in a compendium of science abstracts in 1919 (for a paper by Cosserat), Whitaker (1922, an Almanac!), Seares (1924), Luyten (1950), van de Kamp (1971), Burnham (1978), Spite & Lahmek (1982), Fernandez (1983). “van Maanen’s Star” has own entry in Encyclopedia of Astronomy & Astrophysics (Mur...")
• 11:48, 5 July 2024 Ericmamajek talk contribs uploaded File:Eric Luyten+Ebbinghausen.png
• 11:48, 5 July 2024 Ericmamajek talk contribs created page File:Eric Luyten+Ebbinghausen.png
• 11:45, 5 July 2024 Ericmamajek talk contribs created page Luyten’s Star (Created page with " modern name for GJ 273 = LHS 33 = BD+5 1668. Early parallax estimate of this high pm star (3.5”/yr) by Luyten & Ebbighausen (1935) of plx=0.40+-0.15” suggested it might be one of the closest stars. Current values: M3.5V star (V=9.9 mag) at d=3.8 pc. Two confirmed exoplanets and two candidates. ==Etymology and History== Shortly afterwards, “Luyten’s Star” started appearing in works: A list of nearby stars in an astronomy lab manual by R.K. Marshall) (1938),...")
• 11:40, 5 July 2024 Ericmamajek talk contribs uploaded File:Eric Luyten.jpg
• 11:40, 5 July 2024 Ericmamajek talk contribs created page File:Eric Luyten.jpg
• 11:39, 5 July 2024 Ericmamajek talk contribs uploaded File:Eric kapteyn.png
• 11:39, 5 July 2024 Ericmamajek talk contribs created page File:Eric kapteyn.png
• 11:36, 5 July 2024 Ericmamajek talk contribs created page Kapteyn’s Star (Created page with "modern name for HD 33793 = GJ 191, a high proper motion M1 subdwarf at d=4pc (V=8.8). ==Etymology and History== This was 2nd highest proper motion star in 1927 according to Luyten and still is! (8.7”/yr). It was pointed out as highest proper motion (at time) by Kapteyn (1897) “Stern mit grösster bislang bekannter Eigenbewegung” (“Star with largest self-motion known to date”) Name appears to be from Luyten (1927) “Note on the Magnitude and Spectrum of Kap...")
• 11:32, 5 July 2024 Ericmamajek talk contribs uploaded File:Eric Geminga.png
• 11:32, 5 July 2024 Ericmamajek talk contribs created page File:Eric Geminga.png
• 11:29, 5 July 2024 Ericmamajek talk contribs created page Geminga (Created page with "modern name for PSR B0633+17 Astrophysically important nearby pulsar – 1127 references. NASA ADS lists 844 publications with “Geminga” in abstract. Name listed in Lortet & Spite (1986) IAU dictionary of names. ==Etymology and History== "Geminga" is an artificially invented term for the gamma-ray and X-ray pulsar discovered and named by [https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1983ApJ...272L...9B/abstract Giovanni Bignani+ 1983] see footnote below. Bignami (1944-2017)...")
• 11:23, 5 July 2024 Ericmamajek talk contribs created page Przybylski's Star (made the page and added a photograph for the evidence) Tag: Visual edit
• 11:22, 5 July 2024 Ericmamajek talk contribs uploaded File:Eric Przybylski.png
• 11:22, 5 July 2024 Ericmamajek talk contribs created page File:Eric Przybylski.png
• 11:17, 5 July 2024 Ericmamajek talk contribs uploaded File:Eric Plaskett.png
• 11:17, 5 July 2024 Ericmamajek talk contribs created page File:Eric Plaskett.png
• 11:14, 5 July 2024 Ericmamajek talk contribs created page Plaskett's Star (Created page with "hier kommt die Maus ==Etymology and History== Name appears to stem from Struve (1948) “J. S. Plaskett's Star of Large Mass, HD 47129” https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1948ApJ...107..327S/abstract and subsequently as “Plaskett’s Star”by Abhyankar (1957) https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1957PASP...69..385A/abstract. Struve remarked that the system was unique for its total mass being so massive (>139 Msun) ==Mythology== ==IAU Star Name== Appears in va...")
• 11:10, 5 July 2024 Ericmamajek talk contribs uploaded File:Becvar Tyl.jpg
• 11:10, 5 July 2024 Ericmamajek talk contribs created page File:Becvar Tyl.jpg
• 11:07, 5 July 2024 Ericmamajek talk contribs created page Tyl (Created page with "a modern star name. ==Etymology and History== Name of unknown etymology from ANTONÍN BEČVÁŘ’S Atlas Coeli Skalnate Pleso II (1951) & later editions. Name later appeared in Hoffleit’s Bright Star Catalog (4th & 5th editions), Rhoads (1971), Moore (1990), Bakich (1995), Kunitzsch & Smart (2006), etc. ==Mythology== ==IAU Star Name== Name is already in SIMBAD: https://simbad.u-strasbg.fr/simbad/sim-id?Ident=Tyl Star is V=3.91 mag, G7 giant at d=47 pc. Has c...")