Details on Acronym:   GCVS
  
GCVS   (General Catalog of Variable *)
  ====>Equivalent to: V*

Details on Acronym:   V*
  
V*    = GCVS = Var  (Variable *)
 Write:<<V*  AA CCC>>
Object:V*  (SIMBAD class: V* = Variable Star)
  Note:Variable Star Nomenclature:
 defined in the General Catalogue of Variable Stars (GCVS), Kukarkin+ from 1971 to 1990, published by Moscow, Academy of Sciences of the USSR, 4 editions and supplements.
 The catalog II/214 supersedes the precedent ones. See catalog B/gcvs/ Samus+ (2007), EV* for extragalactic variables stars.
   Ref:=1971GCVS3.C......0K
     byKUKARKIN B.V.
, KHOLOPOV P.N., PSKOVSKY Y.P., EFREMOV Y.N., KUKARKINA N.P., KUROCHKIN N.E., MEDVEDEVA G.I.
 General Catalogue of Variable Stars, 3rd ed., 0 (1971)

    The third edition containing information on 20437 variable stars
    discovered and designated till 1968.
o<V* VNNNN CCC> N=20437
=E=Catalogue in electronic form as II/214

Details on Acronym:   Var
  
Var    (Variable *)
  ====>Equivalent to: V*