PlateStar.Identification Property

PlateStar.Identification (read-only, String)

The catalog identification (String)

Syntax

PlateStar.Identification

The property syntax has these parts:

Part	Description
Value (String)	The catalog identification (String)

Remarks

This is available only for catalog stars. It is a string identifier for the item in the catalog. For the Guide Star Catalog (and when using the GSC-ACT mode), this is of the form GSC-pppp-nnnn, where pppp is the plate number, and nnnn is the number or ID for the object in the plate. For the USNO SA2.0 Catalog, this is of the form USNO-nnnnn where nnnn is an arbitrarily assigned sequence number. There are no formal identifications in the SA2,0 catalog. For the USNO ACT, the number is of the form TYCHO-nnnn, where nnnn is the Tycho catalog number from the ACT catalog record. For Tycho-2 stars, this is of the form TYCHO-2 -pppp-nnnn-1, where pppp is the plate number, and nnnn is the number or ID for the object in the plate.