Barnard's Star - seeing double?

Truman Kohman Jul 26, 2002

Bill and other Guide Users,
While making a chart of the region of Barnard's Star (GSC 425 2502), I
noticed a star (designated GSC 425 184) ("X") that isn't on older charts -
for example, page 1253 of Burnham's Celestial Handbook and a section of
POSS I that I downloaded from the Web. "More info" on X gives a date 24
Jun 82, but little other information. Its position is about where
Barnard's was in 1981 or 1982 (Burnham page 1252).
Is it possible that X is indeed Barnard's star at the time the GSC was
made? How come Barnard's Star now has a different GSC number?
Truman

Truman P. Kohman, Departments of Chemistry and Physics
Carnegie-Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA 15213 USA
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