[Cz-astronomy] naming conventions for astronomical objects

[Sarah Tuttle]

I think that's the right choice. It gives people the ability to find via 
the other catalogs, but I'm pretty sure NGC is the most complete and 
probably the right starting place.

Sarah

Thorsten Alteholz wrote:
> 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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