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In general all source listings should always contain
positional information and/or a second designation next to a
principal designation in order to avoid ambiguities which can arise with
a single designation.
Existing designations when used in listings, should never be
altered and a bibliographical reference for the designation should be given.
When creating a new catalogue of sources.
please consider registering for an acronym,
preferably before your new objects
become referenced (even informally).
When creating new designations,
such as for newly discovered source(s),
the following procedure is recommended:
References
The IAU Recommendations for Nomenclature
is also available on the World-Wide-Web via your favorite web browser
at the URL address:
World-Wide-Web access to the
Interactive Dictionary of Acronyms is
managed by the
Centre de Données de Strasbourg (CDS)
at the URL address:
Latex and PDF versions of
How to refer to a source or designate a new one
and IAU Recommendations for Nomenclature
are accessible by anonymous ftp at Internet node cdsarc.u-strasbg.fr.
Clearing House
http://cdsweb.u-strasbg.fr/iau-spec.htx
http://cdsweb.u-strasbg.fr/cgi-bin/Dic;
mirror installations are available at
http://vizier.nao.ac.jp/viz-bin/Dic
http://vizier.cfa.harvard.edu/viz-bin/Dic
(URL ftp://cdsarc.u-strasbg.fr/pub/iau)
Advice on specific problems may be obtained from members of the
Clearing House,
a subset of the Working Group on Astronomical
Designations of IAU Commission 5 (current chair, Marion Schmitz)
Representatives are listed
at the end of the IAU Recommendations for Nomenclature.