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: 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: SDSS is also available from http://www.sdss.org/
Note: please credit the usage of the UKIDSS data (details at http://www.ukidss.org/archive/archive.html)
Note: SDSS is also available from http://www.sdss3.org/dr9/
Note: A custom set of five medium-bandwidth filters in the wavelength range of 1-1.8µm was fabricated for the NEWFIRM camera on Mayall for the NEWFIRM Medium-Band Survey (NMBS). The J1 band is similar to the Y band, the canonical J band is split into two filters, J2 and J3, and the H band is split into two filters, H1 and H2 (see the top panel in Figure 1 of the paper).