Note: USNO-A1.0 contains 488,006,860 sources, and was compiled from the blue/red overlaps of the detection lists generated from scans of POSS-I O and E plates (>=-30°) and SRC-J and ESO-R plates (<=-35°). USNO-A1.0 was created by Dave Monet () and collaborators at Flagstaff Station, U.S. Naval Observatory; it is superseded by the new PMM-USNO-A2.0 version. The VizieR search engine uses an on-line compressed version (3.4Gbytes) which was generated at CDS.
Note: USNO-A2.0 contains 526,280,881 sources, and is based on a re-reduction of the Precision Measuring Machine (PMM) scans from POSS-I O and E plates (>=-18°) and SRC-J and ESO-R plates (<=-20°). USNO-A2.0 was created by Dave Monet () and collaborators at Flagstaff Station, U.S. Naval Observatory. The major difference between USNO-A2.0 and its previous version USNO-A1.0 is that A1.0 used the Guide Star Catalog as its reference frame whereas A2.0 uses the ICRF as realized by the USNO ACT catalog (Urban et al. 1997). The VizieR search engine uses an on-line compressed version (3.6Gbytes) which was generated at CDS.
Note: The Guide Star Catalog has been constructed to support the operational need of the Hubble Space Telescope. It contains over 25 million positions for about 19 million objects, of which more than 15 million are classified as stars. The version 1.2 is a new astrometric reduction which results in absolute position errors about 0.3-0.4 arcsec. (see GSC pages at URL http://www-gsss.stsci.edu/gsc/gsc.html)
Note: The GSC-ACT (or GSC1.3) is a recalibration of the GSC1.1, the catalogue constructed to support the operational need of the Hubble Space Telescope, with the ACT, the combination of the Astrographic Catalogue and the Tycho catalogue derived from the Hipparcos mission; see http://www.projectpluto.com/gsc_act.htm for more details about this recalibration.
Note: The USNO-B Catalog presents positions, proper motions, magnitudes un blue, red and infrared, as well as star/galaxy estimators for 1,045,175,762 objects derived from 3,648,832,040 separate observations. The data were taken from scans of 7,435 Schmidt plates taken from various sky surveys during the last 50 years. USNO-B1.0 catalog was created by Dave Monet and collaborators at http://www.nofs.navy.mil/data/fchpix/ Note that the star/galaxy estimators may be mixed up in dense regions.
Note: The Naval Observatory Merged Astrometric Dataset (NOMAD) contains astrometric and photometric data for over 1 billion stars derived from the Hipparcos (I/239), Tycho-2 (I/259), UCAC2 (I/289), and USNO-B1.0 (I/284) catalogs for astrometry and optical photometry, supplemented by 2MASS (II/246) near-infrared photometry. An efficient remote query program findnomad1 is available in the cdsclient package, for Unix/Linux platforms
Note: see the UCAC4 document, and the the fix for high proper motion stars. The UCAC home page is available at http://www.usno.navy.mil/USNO/astrometry/optical-IR-prod/ucac. Please acknowledge the usage of the UCAC4
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Note: Zone -40/+50deg
Note: UCAC5 document
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(original column names in green) (1811709771 rows)
Note: Errors found in the Final IUE Merged log are reported in the file errata.htx
Note: (see also the postcard server)
Note: The recommended designation for the 7C sources is made from the full B1950 position with template 7C HHMMSS.s+DDMMSS
Note: The ``short'' version of the catalogue can be retrieved by a selecting *+* in the SEQflags column
Note: on-line documentation at http://www.swift.ac.uk/2SXPS/docs.php
Note: The column expnum provides an access to details on the exposures, and a link to the Preview and Retrieval System via the CADC
Note: Details of surveyed literature
Note: The PSC column provides a direct link to the named IRAS Point Source Catalog parameters - but the name does generally not fit an IRAS source...
