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- Flamsteed_designation abstract "Flamsteed designations for stars are similar to Bayer designations, except that they use numbers instead of Greek and Roman letters. Each star is assigned a number and the Latin genitive of the constellation it lies in (see 88 modern constellations for a list of constellations and the genitive forms of their names). Flamsteed designations were assigned to 2554 stars. The numbers were originally assigned in order of increasing right ascension within each constellation, but due to the effects of precession they are now slightly out of order in some places.This method of designating stars first appeared in a preliminary version of John Flamsteed's Historia Coelestis Britannica published by Edmond Halley and Isaac Newton in 1712 without Flamsteed's approval. The final version of Flamsteed's catalogue published in 1725 after his death omitted the numerical designations altogether. The numbers we now use were assigned by the French astronomer, Joseph Jérôme de Lalande and appeared in his 1783 almanac, Éphémérides des mouvemens célestes which contained a revised edition of Flamsteed’s catalogue. Lalande noted in his Introduction that he got the idea from the unofficial 1712 edition.Flamsteed designations gained popularity throughout the eighteenth century, and are now commonly used when no Bayer designation exists. Where a Bayer designation with a Greek letter does exist for a star, it is usually used in preference to the Flamsteed designation. (Flamsteed numbers are generally preferred to Bayer designations with Roman letters.) Examples of well-known stars that are usually referred to by their Flamsteed numbers include 51 Pegasi, and 61 Cygni. Flamsteed designations are often used instead of the Bayer designation if the latter contains an extra attached number; for example, "55 Cancri" is more common than "Rho-1 Cancri".There are examples of stars, such as 10 Ursae Majoris in Lynx, bearing Flamsteed designations for constellations in which they do not lie, just as there are for Bayer designations, because of the compromises that had to be made when the modern constellation boundaries were drawn up.Flamsteed's catalogue covered only the stars visible from Great Britain, and therefore stars of the far southern constellations have no Flamsteed numbers. Some stars, such as the nearby star 82 Eridani, were named in a major southern-hemisphere catalog called Uranometria Argentina, by Benjamin Gould; these are Gould numbers, rather than Flamsteed numbers, and should be differentiated with a G, as in 82 G. Eridani. Except for a handful of cases, Gould numbers are not in common use. Similarly, Flamsteed-like designations assigned by other astronomers are no longer in general use. (A well-known exception is 47 Tucanae from Bode's catalog.)Some entries in Flamsteed's catalog are errors: for instance, Flamsteed observed Uranus in 1690 but did not recognize it as a planet and entered it into his catalog as a star called "34 Tauri".".
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- Flamsteed_designation wikiPageWikiLink 82_G._Eridani.
- Flamsteed_designation wikiPageWikiLink 88_modern_constellations.
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- Flamsteed_designation wikiPageWikiLink Category:Astronomical_catalogues.
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- Flamsteed_designation wikiPageWikiLink Constellation.
- Flamsteed_designation wikiPageWikiLink Edmond_Halley.
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- Flamsteed_designation wikiPageWikiLink List_of_stars_in_Andromeda.
- Flamsteed_designation wikiPageWikiLink List_of_stars_in_Aquarius.
- Flamsteed_designation wikiPageWikiLink List_of_stars_in_Aquila.
- Flamsteed_designation wikiPageWikiLink List_of_stars_in_Aries.
- Flamsteed_designation wikiPageWikiLink List_of_stars_in_Auriga.
- Flamsteed_designation wikiPageWikiLink List_of_stars_in_Boötes.
- Flamsteed_designation wikiPageWikiLink List_of_stars_in_Camelopardalis.
- Flamsteed_designation wikiPageWikiLink List_of_stars_in_Cancer.
- Flamsteed_designation wikiPageWikiLink List_of_stars_in_Canes_Venatici.
- Flamsteed_designation wikiPageWikiLink List_of_stars_in_Canis_Major.
- Flamsteed_designation wikiPageWikiLink List_of_stars_in_Canis_Minor.
- Flamsteed_designation wikiPageWikiLink List_of_stars_in_Capricornus.
- Flamsteed_designation wikiPageWikiLink List_of_stars_in_Cassiopeia.
- Flamsteed_designation wikiPageWikiLink List_of_stars_in_Cepheus.
- Flamsteed_designation wikiPageWikiLink List_of_stars_in_Cetus.
- Flamsteed_designation wikiPageWikiLink List_of_stars_in_Coma_Berenices.
- Flamsteed_designation wikiPageWikiLink List_of_stars_in_Corona_Borealis.
- Flamsteed_designation wikiPageWikiLink List_of_stars_in_Corvus.
- Flamsteed_designation wikiPageWikiLink List_of_stars_in_Crater.
- Flamsteed_designation wikiPageWikiLink List_of_stars_in_Cygnus.
- Flamsteed_designation wikiPageWikiLink List_of_stars_in_Delphinus.
- Flamsteed_designation wikiPageWikiLink List_of_stars_in_Draco.
- Flamsteed_designation wikiPageWikiLink List_of_stars_in_Equuleus.
- Flamsteed_designation wikiPageWikiLink List_of_stars_in_Eridanus.
- Flamsteed_designation wikiPageWikiLink List_of_stars_in_Gemini.
- Flamsteed_designation wikiPageWikiLink List_of_stars_in_Hercules.
- Flamsteed_designation wikiPageWikiLink List_of_stars_in_Hydra.
- Flamsteed_designation wikiPageWikiLink List_of_stars_in_Lacerta.
- Flamsteed_designation wikiPageWikiLink List_of_stars_in_Leo.
- Flamsteed_designation wikiPageWikiLink List_of_stars_in_Leo_Minor.
- Flamsteed_designation wikiPageWikiLink List_of_stars_in_Lepus.
- Flamsteed_designation wikiPageWikiLink List_of_stars_in_Libra.
- Flamsteed_designation wikiPageWikiLink List_of_stars_in_Lynx.
- Flamsteed_designation wikiPageWikiLink List_of_stars_in_Lyra.
- Flamsteed_designation wikiPageWikiLink List_of_stars_in_Monoceros.
- Flamsteed_designation wikiPageWikiLink List_of_stars_in_Ophiuchus.
- Flamsteed_designation wikiPageWikiLink List_of_stars_in_Orion.
- Flamsteed_designation wikiPageWikiLink List_of_stars_in_Pegasus.
- Flamsteed_designation wikiPageWikiLink List_of_stars_in_Perseus.
- Flamsteed_designation wikiPageWikiLink List_of_stars_in_Pisces.
- Flamsteed_designation wikiPageWikiLink List_of_stars_in_Piscis_Austrinus.
- Flamsteed_designation wikiPageWikiLink List_of_stars_in_Sagitta.
- Flamsteed_designation wikiPageWikiLink List_of_stars_in_Sagittarius.
- Flamsteed_designation wikiPageWikiLink List_of_stars_in_Scorpius.
- Flamsteed_designation wikiPageWikiLink List_of_stars_in_Serpens.
- Flamsteed_designation wikiPageWikiLink List_of_stars_in_Sextans.
- Flamsteed_designation wikiPageWikiLink List_of_stars_in_Taurus.
- Flamsteed_designation wikiPageWikiLink List_of_stars_in_Triangulum.
- Flamsteed_designation wikiPageWikiLink List_of_stars_in_Ursa_Major.
- Flamsteed_designation wikiPageWikiLink List_of_stars_in_Ursa_Minor.
- Flamsteed_designation wikiPageWikiLink List_of_stars_in_Virgo.
- Flamsteed_designation wikiPageWikiLink List_of_stars_in_Vulpecula.
- Flamsteed_designation wikiPageWikiLink Lynx_(constellation).
- Flamsteed_designation wikiPageWikiLink Planet.
- Flamsteed_designation wikiPageWikiLink Precession.
- Flamsteed_designation wikiPageWikiLink Right_ascension.
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- Flamsteed_designation wikiPageWikiLink Star_designation.
- Flamsteed_designation wikiPageWikiLink Stellar_designation.
- Flamsteed_designation wikiPageWikiLink Table_of_stars_with_Flamsteed_designations.
- Flamsteed_designation wikiPageWikiLink Uranus.
- Flamsteed_designation wikiPageWikiLinkText "1 Sagittarii, 1 Sgr".
- Flamsteed_designation wikiPageWikiLinkText "1 CMa".
- Flamsteed_designation wikiPageWikiLinkText "1 Ori".
- Flamsteed_designation wikiPageWikiLinkText "10".
- Flamsteed_designation wikiPageWikiLinkText "10 Andromedae".
- Flamsteed_designation wikiPageWikiLinkText "10 Equulei".
- Flamsteed_designation wikiPageWikiLinkText "107 Piscium".
- Flamsteed_designation wikiPageWikiLinkText "11 CrB".
- Flamsteed_designation wikiPageWikiLinkText "11 Ursae Minoris".
- Flamsteed_designation wikiPageWikiLinkText "11".