[Cz-astronomy] naming conventions for astronomical objects

Thorsten Alteholz thorsten at alteholz.de
Tue Oct 23 07:08:28 CDT 2007


Hi,

I just started articles about constellations. One section of each 
article shall contain information about or links to special objects 
in that constellation. So after some time this should result in a more or 
less complete list of Messier/NGC objects.
What I am not sure about is the name of these NGC-pages. I want to propose 
that the main page of any such object is named after the NGC number like 
[[NGC 6523]] and that there are #REDIRECTIONs from other pages like 
[[Messier 8]], [[M 8]] or [[Lagoon Nebula]].

What do you think about this naming convention?

   Thorsten



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