In November 2026, several WGSN participated in conferences and presented our work.

IAUS 409

“Innovative Research and Techniques in Astronomy Communication” (NAOJ Tokyo)

Sadegh Faghanpour with Saeed Jafari presented a poster on star names. The conference took place from 2 to 6 November.

11th International Conference on Digital Heritage

The conference EuroMed2026 was organised completely online and took place from 2 to 4th November.

Youla Azkarrula and Susanne M Hoffmann presented an oral introduction to the All Skies Encyclopaedia:

WGSN Abracadabra

How the IAU WGSN turns names of historical / indigenous constellations into star names to keep their heritage. This way, the historical constellations are memorised by star names, become well documented regarding their etymology, history and concordance, and their names are even made ready for everyday work in popular astronomy (science communication) and astrophysics research papers.

The work of WGSN presented at the ICHA

From November 4 to 6, the International Symposium on Historical Astronomy took place in Gyeongju, South Korea.

In the scientific talk on non-canonical historical frames of reference in East Asia, Susanne M Hoffmann, highlighted some examples of changes of the stars that identify with specific constellations and how this effects the search fields for counter parts of historical novae and supernovae.

Our IAU-All Skies Encyclopaedia was presented as a reference tool for research on these topics.