Current chair: Marion Schmitz
(version August 2018) |
Source listings should always contain positional information and/or a second designation in order to avoid ambiguities which can arise with a single designation.
Existing designations, when used in listings, should not be altered and for rarely used names a bibliographical reference for the designation should be given.
When creating a new catalogue of sources, please consider registering for an acronym, preferably before your new objects become referenced (even informally).
When creating new designations, such as for newly discovered source(s), the following procedure is recommended:
Other examples and rules are in the IAU Recommendations for Nomenclature, including helpful hints.
Consult representatives of the Working Group Designations if problems arise and specific advice is desired.
References
World-Wide-Web access to the Interactive Dictionary of Nomenclature is
managed by the
Centre de Données de Strasbourg (CDS) at the URL address:
http://cdsweb.u-strasbg.fr/cgi-bin/Dic;
mirror installations are available at
http://vizier.nao.ac.jp/viz-bin/Dic
http://vizier.cfa.harvard.edu/viz-bin/Dic
Working Group Designations
Advice on specific problems may be obtained from members of the
representatives of the Working Group on Astronomical Designations of IAU
Commission B2 (current chair, Marion Schmitz),
see the list at the end of the IAU
Recommendations for Nomenclature.