An Instructive Challenge
This question came to the CfA Public Affairs office, and I am sharing it with y’all because I think the solution is instructive.
A student had to figure out the name of a stellar object as part of an assignment. He was given the following information about it:
- apparent [V] magnitude = 5.76
- B-V = 0.02
- E(B-V) = 0.00
- parallax = 0.0478 arcsec
- radial velocity = -18 km/s
- redshift = 0 km/s
He looked in all the stellar databases but was unable to locate it, so he asked the CfA for help.
Just to help you out, here are a couple of places where you can find comprehensive online catalogs:
See if you can find it!