star designations in photometry tool

[Axel Thomas]

Hi all,
stars in the photometry tool are labelled with a 9-digit designation such as '000-BMF-963' which I could not identify even with the help of VIZIER. It is at least not a GAIA designation as I first expected.
When reporting check and comparison stars I have to use star designations of one of the common star catalogs such as HD, UCAC, Tycho or GAIA. I did not find any reference to the designation system in the ASTAP manual so can someone please point me to a description?

cs Axel

[han.k]

Hi Axel,

This is the AAVSO designation (numberplate) called AUID:

https://www.aavso.org/aavso-unique-identifier

This 000-BMF-963 you should specify as the check star

You can find it via the menus as shown in the attached screenshot. The label will refer to a GSC star or other known star by Simbad. But just use the 000-BMF-963 as designation. It is AAVSO specific. The standard star designation are difficult to process due to the variation in writing. So they use the AUID instead.

Han

[Axel Thomas]

Hi Han,
thanks for the clarification.

cs Axel