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Ive found a couple of cases where the cross-reference given for a HIP star is different to that given for the corresponding TYC star. What is going on?

April 26, 2017cases Couple cross-reference different given going hip star tyc

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Ive found a couple of cases where the cross-reference given for a HIP star is different to that given for the corresponding TYC star. What is going on?

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A. This is a good example of the previous problem. The HIP and TYC catalogues were cross-referenced to other catalogues independently. Sometimes, there is no obvious answer as to which is “correct”. See SIMBAD!