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: Note that the J2000 coordinates are not part of the original catalogue, they were computed from dRAs and dDEs, or from the (rho,theta); their accuracy can be low.
Note: Detailed introduction can be found in intro.tex (see also http://aries.usno.navy.mil/ad/ac.html) Direct links to Hipparcos and Tycho observations are provided from the relevant columns.
Note: This version of the GSC-II has no proper motions, but the limits on brightness which existed on GSC2.2 (F<18.5, Bj<19.5) were removed.
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Note: Details of surveyed literature