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51: 284:(I to IV) into more specific classes, given letters from A to N. Also, the letter O was used for stars whose spectra consisted mainly of bright lines, the letter P for planetary nebulae, and the letter Q for spectra not fitting into any of the classes A through P. No star of type N appeared in the catalogue, and the only star of type O was the 297:
and Pickering published a more detailed study of the spectra of bright stars in the northern hemisphere in 1897. Maury used classifications numbered from I to XXII; groups I to XX corresponded to subdivisions of the Draper Catalogue types B, A, F, G, K, and M, while XXI and XXII corresponded to the
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catalogs for 225,300 stars. The classification scheme used was similar to that used in Cannon's 1901 work, except that types such as B, A, B5A, F2G, and so on, had been changed to B0, A0, B5, F2, and so on. As well as the classes O through M, P was used for nebulae and R and N for
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Nesterov, V. V.; Kuzmin, A. V.; Ashimbaeva, N. T.; Volchkov, A. A.; Röser, S.; Bastian, U. (1995). "The Henry Draper Extension Charts: A catalogue of accurate positions, proper motions, magnitudes and spectral types of 86933 stars".
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as bright as the faintest stars visible with the naked eye). The extensions contain stars as faint as the 11th magnitude selected from certain regions of the sky. Stars in the original catalogue are numbered from 1 to 225300 (prefix
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Pickering died on February 3, 1919, leaving 6 volumes to be overseen by Cannon. Cannon found spectral classifications for 46,850 fainter stars in selected regions of the sky in the
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itself started in 1911. From 1912 to 1915, Cannon and her coworkers classified spectra at the rate of approximately 5,000 per month. The catalogue was published in 9 volumes of the
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into a machine-readable format was more difficult, but this task was eventually completed by 1995 by Nesterov, Röser and their coworkers, and the charts are now available at
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Cannon, Annie J.; Pickering, Edward C. (1901). "Spectra of bright southern stars photographed with the 13-inch Boyden telescope as part of the Henry Draper Memorial".
276:, published in 1890. This catalogue contained spectroscopic classifications for 10,351 stars, mostly north of declination −25°. Most of the classification was done by 1290: 1275: 1260: 1233: 507: 455: 348:, published in six parts between 1925 and 1936. She continued classifying stars until her death in 1941. Most of these classifications were published in 1949 in the 117:), published from 1937 to 1949 in the form of charts, which gave classifications for 86,933 more stars. In all, 359,083 stars were classified as of August 2017. 54: 777:
Maury, Antonia C.; Pickering, Edward C. (1897). "Spectra of bright stars photographed with the 11-inch Draper Telescope as part of the Henry Draper Memorial".
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Pickering, Edward C. (1890). "The Draper Catalogue of stellar spectra photographed with the 8-inch Bache telescope as a part of the Henry Draper memorial".
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Draper Catalogue types N and O. She was the first to place B stars in their current position, prior to A stars, in the spectral classification.
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was part of a pioneering effort to classify stellar spectra, and its catalogue numbers are commonly used as a way of identifying stars.
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between 1918 and 1924. It contains rough positions, magnitudes, spectral classifications, and, where possible, cross-references to the
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may be used regardless as its use produces no ambiguity. Many stars are customarily identified by their HD numbers.
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Women in Science: Antiquity Through the Nineteenth Century: a Biographical Dictionary with Annotated Bibliography
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in 1872. He took over a hundred more photographs of stellar spectra before his death in 1882. In 1885,
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Between 1910 and 1915, new discoveries increased interest in stellar classification, and work on the
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of about 9; the extensions added fainter stars in certain areas of the sky. The construction of the
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Cannon, Annie Jump; Shapley, Harlow (1937). "The Henry Draper charts of stellar spectra".
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Cannon, Annie J.; Mayall, Margaret Walton (1949). "The Henry Draper extension. II".
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The Analysis of Starlight: One Hundred and Fifty Years of Astronomical Spectroscopy
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The catalogue and its extensions were the first large-scale attempt to catalogue
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1900.0. Stars in the first extension are numbered from 225301 to 272150 (prefix
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In 1890, the Harvard College Observatory constructed an observation station in
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Cannon, Annie J.; Pickering, Edward C. (1918). "The Henry Draper Catalogue".
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Astronomical Data Center CD-ROM: Selected Astronomical Catalogs, Volume 3
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From Dust to Stars: Studies of the Formation and Early Evolution of Stars
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Henry Draper Catalogue and Extension, A. J. Cannon and E. C. Pickering,
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dates back to the earliest photographic studies of stellar spectra.
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See p. 2, Cannon and Shapley 1937 and p. 369, Nesterov et al. 1995.
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as catalogue number III/135A. Because of their format, putting the
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Stars contained in the main portion of the catalogue are of medium
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and its extensions are available on line free of charge at the
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and Pickering in 1901. Cannon used the lettered types of the
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Classifications in the Draper Catalogue of Stellar Spectra
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Cannon, Annie. J. (1936). "The Henry Draper extension".
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Cannon, Annie J. (1915). "The Henry Draper Memorial".
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scheme of stellar spectra which is still used today.
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Henry Draper catalogue
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