Thread: Which is Girtab
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Old 04-01-2019, 07:52 AM
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Originally Posted by angelof View Post
Greetings

I am doing some research and am finding different answers as to which star Girtab actually is. Some sources show iSco, some kSco, and others theta Sco .

Is there an actual definitive list of names?
Can someone help me out on this?

Thanks
Hi Angelo, the IAU has a list of genuine star names - oddly Girtab isn't on the list that I could see, but Sargas is definitely theta scorpii on the list. Girtab comes up as kappa scorpii in both Sky safari and Wikipedia, so I'd probably run with that until you find otherwise. Girtab and Sargas are relatively close together in the constellation, whereas iSco is a bit more removed.
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