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Old 11-04-2011, 08:44 AM
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Hi Chris,

It was possibly a bad example, as that particular star, ** HJ 5524, is actually part of a binary system and is not in the SAO catalogue.

When searching Simbad with a SAO identifier the ** is not required.

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