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Sometime ago I sent a message to Phil Harrington (who keeps an official list of asterisms called S.T.A.R.) letting him know about the asterism and received a reply from him saying that 'Cheshire Cat' is a new find.

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Hi Ben,

Welcome to CN. Just so you don't feel so bad, I re-discovered M42 in Orion and I have dubbed it Mike's Nebula. This kind of thing happens all the time around here! Oh yeah, by the way, I renamed Vega to Mike also.

Hmmm.....how about the Summer Mikey Way in Sagittarius?

Seriously though, I don't think anyone was trying to rob you of your kudos. Congrats on finding the asterism. Independent and often parallel discoveries happen all the time in Astronomy and your Chesire Cat is the latest victim. By the way, does Harrington have that STAR list online anywhere? I'd be curious to take a look at some of those asterisms.

Thanks and clear dark skies to you...

MikeG

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Michael Gilmer - Member of the Meteoritical Society & Collector of Falling Stars.



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