Heta:Heta/info

The Heta project is a new astronomical catalogue and social experiment.

Goals of Heta

 * Catalogue and make designations for all types of astronomical objects and asterisms
 * See what astronomical objects are the most important by having a voting system in the catalogue
 * Make a good source for astronomical information

Designation
Catalogued objects are given designations, which start with a tack-shaped small heta, then the number of the object in base 36 (with no space in between).

Way to represent the heta are (best to worst):
 * Greek small heta (preferred)
 * Claudian half H
 * Right tack
 * Greek small eta
 * Just "Heta" with a space if only ASCII is usable

There are 3 main reasons why base 36 is chosen:
 * Base 36 is the square of senary, which is a good base.
 * With 36 different digits, the designations of the objects can be very short.
 * The digits can be 0 - 9 and a - z

The voting system
Each catalogued object has a votes count associated with it. One can:
 * Upvote the object, which will give 6 votes.
 * Downvote the object, which will remove 1 vote.

Sources and credits

 * Wikipedians English Wikipedia
 * P. P. Eggleton, A. A. Tokovinin A catalogue of multiplicity among bright stellar systems
 * Stellarium devs Stellarium mobile app
 * CDS VizieR
 * Contributors

Contributing
Feel free to add whatever you want to this project. After you've done some stuff, also feel free to add your name to the contributors page