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<div class="vector-body-before-content"> <div class="mw-indicators"> </div> <div id="siteSub" class="noprint">From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia</div> </div> <div id="contentSub"><div id="mw-content-subtitle"></div></div> <div id="mw-content-text" class="mw-body-content"><div class="mw-content-ltr mw-parser-output" lang="en" dir="ltr"><div class="shortdescription nomobile noexcerpt noprint searchaux" style="display:none">Yale Catalogue of Bright Stars</div> <p>The <b>Bright Star Catalogue</b>, also known as the <b>Yale Catalogue of Bright Stars</b>, <b>Yale Bright Star Catalogue</b>, or just <b>YBS</b>, is a <a href="/wiki/Star_catalogue" title="Star catalogue">star catalogue</a> that lists all stars of <a href="/wiki/Stellar_magnitude" class="mw-redirect" title="Stellar magnitude">stellar magnitude</a> 6.5 or brighter, which is roughly every star visible to the naked eye from Earth. The catalog lists 9,110 objects, of which 9,095 are stars, 11 are <a href="/wiki/Nova" title="Nova">novae</a> or <a href="/wiki/Supernova" title="Supernova">supernovae</a> (which were "bright stars" only at the time when they were at their peak),<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and four are non-stellar objects which are the <a href="/wiki/Globular_cluster" title="Globular cluster">globular clusters</a> <a href="/wiki/47_Tucanae" title="47 Tucanae">47 Tucanae</a> (designated HR 95) and <a href="/wiki/NGC_2808" title="NGC 2808">NGC 2808</a> (HR 3671), and the <a href="/wiki/Open_cluster" title="Open cluster">open clusters</a> <a href="/wiki/NGC_2281" title="NGC 2281">NGC 2281</a> (HR 2496) and <a href="/wiki/Messier_67" title="Messier 67">Messier 67</a> (HR 3515).<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The catalogue is fixed in number of entries, but its data is maintained, and it is appended with a comments section about the objects that has been steadily enhanced. The abbreviation for the catalog as a whole is <b>BS</b> or <b>YBS</b> but all citations of stars it indexes use <b>HR</b> before the catalog number, a homage to the catalog's direct predecessor, published in 1908, named the <i>Harvard Revised Photometry Catalogue</i>. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="History">History</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Bright_Star_Catalogue&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: History"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The earliest predecessor of the <b>YBSC</b>, titled <i>Harvard Photometry</i>, was published in 1884 by the <a href="/wiki/Harvard_College_Observatory" title="Harvard College Observatory">Harvard College Observatory</a> under the supervision of <a href="/wiki/Edward_Charles_Pickering" title="Edward Charles Pickering">Edward Charles Pickering</a>, and contained about 4,000 stars.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Following its release, Pickering promoted a broader stellar survey for the southern celestial hemisphere, equally as thorough as the <i>Harvard Photometry</i> of 1884. This <a href="/wiki/Photometry_(astronomy)" title="Photometry (astronomy)">photometry</a> work was carried out by <a href="/wiki/Solon_I._Bailey" class="mw-redirect" title="Solon I. Bailey">Solon I. Bailey</a> between 1889 and 1891, leading to the publication of the <i>Revised Harvard Photometry</i> in 1908. The new catalogue contained stars down to <a href="/wiki/Apparent_magnitude" title="Apparent magnitude">magnitude</a> 6.5 in both hemispheres, for which <a href="/wiki/John_A._Parkhurst" class="mw-redirect" title="John A. Parkhurst">John A. Parkhurst</a> continued work through the 1920s.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The <b>Yale Bright Star Catalogue</b> has been steadily enhanced since the Yale astronomer <a href="/wiki/Frank_Schlesinger" title="Frank Schlesinger">Frank Schlesinger</a> published the first version in 1930; even though the YBS is limited to the 9110 objects already in the catalog, the data for the objects already listed is corrected and extended, and it is appended with a comments section about the objects. The edition of 1991 was the fifth in order, a version that introduced a considerable enhancement of the comments section, to a little more than the size of the catalogue itself. This most recent edition, in addition to several previous editions, was compiled and edited by <a href="/wiki/Ellen_Dorrit_Hoffleit" class="mw-redirect" title="Ellen Dorrit Hoffleit">Ellen Dorrit Hoffleit</a> of <a href="/wiki/Yale_University" title="Yale University">Yale University</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The Harvard Revised Photometry, based on visual observations, has been superseded by photo-electric measurements using band pass filters, most prominently the <a href="/wiki/UBV_photometric_system" title="UBV photometric system">UBV photometric system</a>. This can differ substantially (up to 1.8 magnitudes <sup id="cite_ref-YBSCS_7-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-YBSCS-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>) from the older system. Hence many stars brighter than V=6.50 are not in the YBSC (and hundreds of stars in the YBSC are fainter than V=6.50). Dorrit Hoffleit with Michael Saladyga and Peter Wlasuk published in 1983 a Supplement with an additional 2603 stars for which a V magnitude of brighter than 7.10 had been measured at that time. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Editions">Editions</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Bright_Star_Catalogue&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Editions"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>There have been one predecessor, and five editions of the YBS Catalog: </p> <ul><li>predecessor – <i>Revised Harvard Photometry</i> (1908)<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>1st edition – <i>Catalogue of Bright Stars</i> (1930)<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>2nd edition – <i>Catalogue of Bright Stars</i> (1940)<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>3rd edition – <i>Catalogue of Bright Stars</i> (1964)<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>4th edition – <i>The Bright Star Catalogue</i> (1982)<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <ul><li>Supplement – <i>A Supplement to the Bright Star Catalogue</i> (1983)<sup id="cite_ref-YBSCS_7-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-YBSCS-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul></li> <li>5th edition – <i>The Bright Star Catalogue</i> (1991),<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> which exists only in electronic form, not in book form.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Bright_Star_Catalogue&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Astronomical_topics">Astronomical topics</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Bright_Star_Catalogue&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Astronomical topics"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Photometry_(astronomy)" title="Photometry (astronomy)">Photometry</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Star_catalog" class="mw-redirect" title="Star catalog">Star catalog</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Astronomers">Astronomers</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Bright_Star_Catalogue&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Astronomers"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Solon_I._Bailey" class="mw-redirect" title="Solon I. Bailey">Solon I. Bailey</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ida_Barney" title="Ida Barney">Ida Barney</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ellen_Dorrit_Hoffleit" class="mw-redirect" title="Ellen Dorrit Hoffleit">Ellen Dorrit Hoffleit</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Carlos_Jaschek" title="Carlos Jaschek">Carlos Jaschek</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Louise_Freeland_Jenkins" title="Louise Freeland Jenkins">Louise Freeland Jenkins</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Edward_Charles_Pickering" title="Edward Charles Pickering">Edward Charles Pickering</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Frank_Schlesinger" title="Frank Schlesinger">Frank Schlesinger</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Bright_Star_Catalogue&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style 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.cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><cite class="citation book cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://tdc-www.harvard.edu/catalogs/bsc5.html"><i>Yale Bright Star Catalog</i></a>. 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