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WGSN explained by Eric Mamajek

January 16, 2024

For the scientific meeting in November 2023, the founder of the Working Group summarized the ideas, goals and developments.

WGSN meets Stellarium

November 21, 2023

The Working Group Star Names (WGSN) and the Stellarium team met in Jena from 1 to 3 November 2023 to think about ways of managing cultural data together. Astronomy is a science that works across faculties: Astrophysics has admittedly been one of the pioneering sciences for large databases and other repositories since the 1970s and…
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WGSN has monthly online meetings to discuss the naming of the visible stars. These meetings are not public and we do not accept name suggestions.

June 18, 2026

  • WGSN

    June 18, 2026  4:00 am - 5:00 am

Our work is pro bono and on a volontary basis.

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