Hi Owen,

> Actually the coathanger is not a cluster. There have been many discussions
> of this on amastro and the data for distances do not support this being a
> true cluster.

Thanks for the update, I wasn't aware of that (the amastro discussion obviously
has eluded me :) ).

> As for Megastar V5 the asterisms are in a common names database that is
> included with the program. This is an ASCII text file and has been added to
> by the users of the software. As Megastar does not differentiate in its
> search between types of objects there is just one of these common name
> lists for all types of objects. There is nothing to stop someone adding the
> asterisms to any of the Guide NSO lists.

This would obviously be a nice first step solution to the "problem". More
elegant would be that Guide found these things through the Go To | Object
name... function, rather than through a user dataset, but I'm not going be picky
about that one :)

Arild

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