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Old 31-July-2008, 06:07 PM
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How does the NGC catalog number tie to the r.a. number, or is there a direct connection?

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Originally Posted by ngc3314 View Post
PG - Palomar-Green, a survey of the sky for blue objects done by Richard Green for his dissertation. This captured a fair number of brightish QSOs that had been hitherto unknown (thus giving clues about how complete the surveys might be), as well as nearby white dwarfs and cataclysmic variable stars.
So there are Green stars, but they are blue. Stellarchromology is pleased to learn this.
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