Talk:List of stars in Andromeda

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Wider Table

We should make the star table wider by adding more data into it in every opened articles in the list of stars by constellations and make it like the other web sites, such as star catalogues, right ascension, declination, absolute magnitude and spectral type. Currently, the table only contain Bayer designations, Flamsteed designations for some constellations, star name icons and proper names, apparent magnitudes, distance, comments, and sometimes right ascension and declination before aparent magnitude, distance, but after the names/designations. The figure of table from left to right is shown here:

Name	Designation				Location		Magnitude		Distance		Sp. class	Notes
Name	B	F	HD	HIP	RA	Dec	vis.	abs.	Ly	Pc	Sp. class	Notes

Thank you alot for making the new table style in the list of star by constellation articles, from Fornax to Lyra as of 23:45 UTC, December 26, 2006, but you should add one more thing, "distance in parsec". For more information about the distance, look in Talk:List of stars in Lyra and Talk:List of stars in Vulpecula. Cosmium 00:34, 27 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the thanks. I was pondering if I should add also distance in parsecs. But since parsecs are not much used in popular texts (incl. Wikipedia), and since the parsecs column doesn't add much new information (just the same values of light year distance divided by 3.26), I didn't see any compelling reason why parsec distances should be included. Keeping the tables as light as possible is in my opinion more important. I included the absolute magnitude since it tells how bright the star actually is and computing it is more complex operation (although some Hipparcos distances are quite meaningless because of small parallaxes). Anyway, after I've incorporated the star notes into my database, updating the tables should be considerably easier.--JyriL ^talk 13:43, 27 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Etymologies

Etymologies listed in this table don't fit into the new table, so please add them in respective star articles with sources.--JyriL ^talk 16:54, 29 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I think they're all in. Might want to delete some of the rarer alternates in e.g. Mirach. kwami 18:05, 10 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

BD	F	Names and other designations	Mag.	Ly away	Comments
α	21	Alpha Andromedae, Alpheratz, Alpherat, Al'faret, Al'ferats, Sirrah, Sirah, Sirrakh	2.06	97.1	< سرة الفرس surrat[u] al-faras Navel of the steed (mare) (سرة alone is surrah) Alpha2 Canum Venaticorum type variable star
β	43	Beta Andromedae, Mirach, Merach, Mirac, Mirak, Mirakh, Merak, Mirar, Mirath, Mirax, El Mizar, Al Mizar	2.07	199	< المراق al-maraqq The Loins
γ¹^,²	57	Gamma Andromedae, Almach, Almaak, Alamak, Almak, Almaach, Alamac, Al'mak	2.26	355	< ? ؟ الارض al-^{c^{anāq al-arđ̧}} The "earth-kid", (a mustelid) double star; component magnitudes: 2.26, 4.84
δ	31	Delta Andromedae, Sadiradra, Saderazra, Sadir Elazra	3.27	101	< الصدر العذراء al-sadr al-adhra'a Chest/Bosom of the Maiden
	51	51 Andromedae, Anfal, El Enfal	3.59	174	< انفال anfal Spoils or Plunder < from the Arabic asterism السيف و الانفال al-saif wa al-anfal "The Sword and the Spoils"
ο	1	Omicron Andromedae	3.62	692	spectroscopic quadruple star
λ	16	Lambda Andromedae	3.81	84.2	RS Canum Venaticorum type variable star
μ	37	Mu Andromedae	3.86	136
ζ	34	Zeta Andromedae	4.08	181	RS Canum Venaticorum type variable star
υ	50	Upsilon Andromedae, Adhab, Azab	4.09	43.9	< عذاب adhab punishment or suffering has three planets
κ	19	Kappa Andromedae	4.15	170
φ	42	Phi Andromedae, Keun Nan Mun	4.26	740	< 軍南門 (Mandarin jūnnánmén) The south gate of the camp Keun Nan Mun shared with χ Andromedae
ι	17	Iota Andromedae	4.29	503
ε	30	Epsilon Andromedae	4.34	169
π	29	Pi Andromedae	4.34	660
η	34	Eta Andromedae	4.40	243
σ	25	Sigma Andromedae	4.51	141
ν	35	Nu Andromedae	4.53	680
	7	7 Andromedae	4.53	63.6...
θ	24	Theta Andromedae	4.61	253
	3	3 Andromedae	4.64	927
	65	65 Andromedae	4.73	307
	58	58 Andromedae	4.78	580
	8	8 Andromedae	4.82	655
ω	48	Omega Andromedae	4.83	92.3
b	60	60 Andromedae	4.84	557
ξ	46	Xi Andromedae, Adhil	4.88	196	< الذيل að-ðayl The train (of a garment) [lit. The tail]
τ	53	Tau Andromedae	4.96	680
ψ	20	Psi Andromedae	4.97	1310
χ	52	Chi Andromedae, Keun Nan Mun	5.01	242	< 軍南門 (Mandarin jūnnánmén) The south gate of the camp Keun Nan Mun shared with φ Andromedae
	22	22 Andromedae	5.01	1639
	41	41 Andromedae	5.04	106.4
	2	2 Andromedae	5.09	95.6
ρ	27	Rho Andromedae	5.16	160
	64	64 Andromedae	5.19	3507
	28	28 Andromedae	5.20	2297
	14	14 Andromedae	5.22	211.5
A	49	49 Andromedae	5.27	222
	4	4 Andromedae	5.30
	32	32 Andromedae	5.30	260
c	62	62 Andromedae	5.31	224.7
	18	18 Andromedae	5.35
	55	55 Andromedae	5.42	513.6
	11	11 Andromedae	5.44	197
	36	36 Andromedae	5.46	146.8
	15	15 Andromedae	5.55	236.52
	63	63 Andromedae	5.57
	47	47 Andromedae	5.60
	44	44 Andromedae	5.67
	5	5 Andromedae	5.68	157.3...
	56	56 Andromedae	5.69
	23	23 Andromedae	5.71	137.56
	13	13 Andromedae	5.75
	12	12 Andromedae	5.77
	45	45 Andromedae	5.80	867.4...
	10	10 Andromedae	5.81
	6	6 Andromedae	5.91	141
	39	39 Andromedae	5.95
	9	9 Andromedae	5.98
	59	59 Andromedae	6.09	272
	26	26 Andromedae	6.10
	66	66 Andromedae	6.16
		HR 465, GY Andromedae	6.36	455	has Promethium lines in its spectrum. Alpha2 Canum Venaticorum type variable star
	59	59 Andromedae	6.82	264
		Groombridge 34, GQ Andromedae, GX Andromedae	8.01	11.62	nearby double star; component magnitudes: 8.08, 11.06 flare star
		Ross 248	12.29	10.32	nearby
		S Andromedae, Supernova 1885		2.9 million	1885 supernova in the Andromeda Galaxy.

Requested move

List of stars in Andromeda → List of stars in the constellation Andromeda — "Andromeda" is highly ambiguous, since it's the name of a constellation and of a widely known galaxy, so a less ambiguous name should be used. — 76.66.195.63 (talk) 02:46, 23 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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Support. Definite improvement. I also notice that Andromeda is a long standing disambiguation page, supporting the claim that the current title is ambiguous. Andrewa (talk) 02:41, 26 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Discussion

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