Tales of Cataloguing II

On Wed, 26 Oct 11 20:37:56 GMT, Steve Willner wrote:
The IAU recommends how to assign source names. A short summary is at
http://vizier.u-strasbg.fr/vizier/Dic/how.htx

One rule, perhaps not as plainly stated as it could be, is that
declinations should always be truncated toward the equator. This was
notably violated by the 2QZ survey, which truncated southwards in
every instance.

Eric