Bright O stars list

[jsandse]

As promised here is a draft list of the brighter (mag < 7) O stars for Northern latitudes taken from the Apellaniz O star catalogue. I haven't taken any spectra of these stars yet but will do shortly (I hope).

There are some good spectroscopic targets here - with several having emission lines some showing p cygni profiles and quite a few showing line profile variations - and I don't believe this set of stars has been studied as much as the Wolf Rayet stars apart from perhaps the ones in orion and the giants.

The ones highlighted in red are emission stars according to SIMBAD.

I have put some comments against some of the stars which I have found have some interest in the optical from the literature - have looked through about 50 papers so far... it is slow work but still have lots to do on this list.

And if anyone has taken any spectra of these stars or has found something of interest out about them then please let me know.

cheers

John