Duplicate entries in starnames.dat

[ajtribick]

Results of running a search for duplicates in starnames.dat:

CT Cir: 73288, 1001568689
UV Aur: 25050, 1003732394
DO Cep: 110893, 2000923991
EE Cet: 13199, 1009620640
V497 Cep: 108052, 1012934266
KK Com: 61204, 1016901448
ZZ Cep: 112317, 1005814476
V415 CMa: 31593, 1007716508
KZ Pav: 103542, 1010209325
38 Oph: 84500, 84605
MZ UMa: 59431, 59432
V2309 Oph: 85148, 1000136837
V1123 Tau: 16706, 1008311238
V1239 Cen: 57589, 1000707229
V342 And: 817, 1025313246
OR Del: 102490, 1030581634
AO Vir: 70209, 1004740321
DW Eri: 21986, 1021465321
V384 Nor: 78808, 1011298318
LM Vir: 64520, 1009886116
VV Crv: 61910, 1014885534
V547 Cas: 2552, 1008034027
TW Dra: 76196, 1000614184
GS Leo: 46634, 46637
V368 Pup: 35960, 1003917116
21 Cyg: 98110, 99031

[SevenSpheres]

Some of these are very easy to fix; but many of them are multiple star systems, with the HIP designation referring to the whole system, and the TYC designation referring to a component of the system with the variable star designation. I'm not really sure how those should be handled.

[ajtribick]

Hmmm. At the moment if I get multiple TYC stars with the same HIP number, I'm assigning the HIP number in stars.dat to the one with the (alphabetically) earliest WDS designation, which is not entirely ideal. Maybe in such cases I should drop the HIP number entirely?