Contributors

IAU WGSN

About

The All Skies Encyclopaedia is a project initiated and set up by Susanne M Hoffmann as Chair of the IAU Working Group on Star Names, whose members contribute much of the data. IAU WGSN uses the ASE for their work on celestial nomenclature and to share this knowledge for purposes of astronomical education and outreach.

The ASE is thankfully supported

• by the IAU Working Group on Star Names (WGSN) whose members contribute their knowledge and help editing,
• by the Austrian Academy of Science with a research grant for the sub-project "Planetarium Babylonicum 2.0",
• by the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC Hefei) by setting up and maintaining a mirror of this page and its data,
• by the Stiftung FNJE (Germany) by funding the hosting of the ASE in Berlin starting in December 2025.

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  Working Group on Star Names
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  International Astronomical Union
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  Austrian Academy of Science (Planetarium Babylonicum)
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  University of Science and Technology of China Hefei (Planetarium Sinicum)

All contributors agreed to the IAU Code of Conduct and the open science and open knowledge policy of the IAU.

These are the wonderful scholars who share their knowledge here

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• Antonio Panaino (ORCiD)
• Boshun Yang (ORCiD)
• B.S. Shylaja (ORCiD)
• Chris Cannon (ORCiD)
• Clive Ruggles (ORCiD)
• Danielle Adams (ORCiD)
• David Hilder (ORCiD)
• Doris Vickers (ORCiD)
• Duane Hamacher (ORCiD)
• Eric Mamajek (ORCiD)
• Euin Choung Kim (ORCiD)
• Gennady Kurtik (ORCiD)^†(2023)
• Henry Stadhouders (ORCiD)
• Hermann Hunger (ORCiD)
• Hitoshi Yamaoka (ORCiD)
• Ian Ridpath (ORCiD)
• Jan Safford (ORCiD)
• J. Matthias Determann (ORCiD)
• Jordi Pàmias (ORCiD)
• Juan A. Belmonte A. (ORCiD)
• Khalid Al-Ajaji (ORCiD)
• Konrad Rybka (ORCiD)
• Kristin Lippincott (ORCiD)
• Manfred Krebernik (ORCiD)
• M.Sadegh Faghanpour (ORCiD)
• Rob van Gent (ORCiD)
• Roland Laffitte (ORCiD)
• Steven R. Gullberg (ORCiD)
• Susanne M Hoffmann (ORCiD)
• Wayne Horowitz (ORCiD)
• Youla Azkarrula (ORCiD)

Predecessors

This project is a standalone research project that was set up in the spirit of the WGSN thanks to generous funding of the project "Planetarium Babylonicum" by the Austrian Academy of Science.

However, of course, there had been earlier (less successful) attempts to create such a global repository. In particular, the project "Ancient Skies" by two amateur astronomers, Doris Vickers and Rüdiger Schultz, in Vienna aimed at producing such a collection. We particularly acknowledge it, as D. Vickers is one of our authors.

a predessor project of this encyclopaedia