Stellar designations and names | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2019-10-04

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00:02:23 1 Proper names
00:07:02 1.1 Stars named for individuals
00:08:07 2 Catalogue designations
00:08:30 2.1 By constellation
00:10:27 2.2 Full-sky catalogues
00:12:36 2.3 Variable designations
00:13:19 2.4 Exoplanet searches
00:13:48 3 Sale of star names by non-scientific entities
00:15:08 4 See also



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In astronomy, stars have a variety of different stellar designations and names, including catalogue designations, current and historical proper names, and foreign language names.
Only a tiny minority of known stars have proper names; all others have only designations from various catalogues or lists, or no identifier at all.  Hipparchus in the 2nd century BC enumerated about 850 naked-eye stars.  Johann Bayer in 1603 listed about twice this number.  Only in the 19th century did star catalogues list the naked-eye stars exhaustively.  The Bright Star Catalogue, which is a star catalogue listing all stars of apparent magnitude 6.5 or brighter, or roughly every star visible to the naked eye from Earth, contains 9,096 stars.  The most voluminous modern catalogues list on the order of a billion stars, out of an estimated total of 200 to 400 billion in the Milky Way.
Proper names may be historical, often transliterated from Arabic or Chinese names.  Such transliterations can vary so there may be multiple spellings.  A smaller number of names have been introduced since the Middle Ages, and a few in modern times as nicknames have come into popular use, for example Sualocin for α Delphini and Navi for γ Cassiopeiae.
The International Astronomical Union (IAU) has begun a process to select and formalise unique proper names for the brighter naked-eye stars and for other stars of popular interest.  To the IAU, name refers to the (usually colloquial) term used for a star in everyday speech, while "designation is solely alphanumerical" and used almost exclusively in official catalogues and for professional astronomy.  Many of the names and some of the designations in use today were inherited from the time before the IAU existed.  Other designations are being added all the time.  As of the start of 2019, the IAU had decided on a little over 300 proper names, mostly for the brighter naked-eye stars.