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: 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: 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: 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.
Note: The limiting magnitude is about 15.2 in the GSC photometric system.
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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