Bright Star Catalog
(HR, BS, YBS, Yale Catalogue of Bright Stars, Yale Bright Star Catalogue)
(early 20th century catalog of 9000 stars)
The Bright Star Catalog (or
Yale Catalogue of Bright Stars or Yale Bright Star Catalogue,
abbreviated BS or YBS, with entries cited as HR)
is an astronomical catalog of 9000 stars.
It began as the Harvard Revised Photometry Catalog
(thus the designation string "HR") in the early 20th century,
and was repeatedly enhanced over the course of the century.
(catalog,stars,photometry)
Further reading:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bright_Star_Catalogue
http://tdc-www.harvard.edu/catalogs/bsc5.html
http://www.alcyone.de/search_in_bsc.html
https://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/W3Browse/star-catalog/bsc5p.html
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1930cbs..book.....S/abstract
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1908AnHar..50....1P/abstract
| Prefix | Example | | |
| BS | BS 7958 | for "bright star" | |
| BSC | BSC 7958 | for "bright star catalogue" | |
| HR | HR 8799 | normal/preferred | |
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Referenced by pages:
HR 8799
stellar designation
TW Hydrae association (TWA)
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