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To Whom This May Concern,

I have recently purchased SkySafari Pro for Android. I have been unable to find the star KIC 9832227, a contact binary, in the database. My reason for interest is that it is expected to merge in the year 2022 resulting in a red nova. If this star is not in the SkySafari database, is there any way to add it in. Please Help.

Thank You,

Jerome

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KIC_9832227

http://earthsky.org/space/star-predicted-to-explode-in-2022

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    Bill Tschumy

    That star doesn't appear to be in our catalogs, which is a bit strange given it's ~12.5 magnitude.  KIC is not a catalog we have.  I look on SIMBAD for other aliases it might have and don't find other catalogs we have:

    2MASS J19291594+4637198

    KIC 9832227 

    1SWASP J192916.01+463719.9

    No, SkySafari does not allow you to add stars or DSOs to the database. 

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