I/188         Tokyo Photoelectric Meridian Circle Catalog 1988 (Yoshizawa+ 1992)

The Tokyo PMC Catalog 88: Catalog of positions of 3800 stars observed in 1988 and planetary positions observed in 1986 to 1988 with Tokyo Photoelectric MEridian circle (PMC88) Yoshizawa M., Suzuki S., Soma M. <Publ. National Astron. Obs. Japan, 2, 475 (1992)> =1992PNAOJ...2..475Y 1992PNAOJ...2..475Y
ADC_Keywords: Meridian observations ; Positional data Description: The fourth annual catalog of the Tokyo PMC is presented for 3800 stars (Part I and Part II) which had been observed at least two times in the 1988 period, that is, from January 1, 1988, to December 31, 1988. The positions of the stars given in the catalog are those at the mean epoch of observations. The coordinates of the catalog are based on the FK5 system, and are referred to the equinox and equator of J2000.0. The positions of five major and nine minor planets are also given in the present catalog (Part III) for all individual observations made in 1986 to 1988. The planetary positions are based on the same coordinate systems as those of the corresponding annual star catalogs, the Tokyo PMC Catalogs 86, 87, and 88. The mean trends of the observed positions - FK5 positions for the basic FK5 stars are constructed and compared with those of the Tokyo PMC Catalogs 86 and 87. As for the planets, their observed positions are compared with the positions of the JPL's planetary ephemeris DE200. We find that the ephemerides of the outermost planets, Uranus and Neptune, have some systematic deviations of a few tenths of arcsec in longitudes. File Summary: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- FileName Lrecl Records Explanations -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ReadMe 80 . This file pmc88 133 3800 The PMC88 Catalogue, Parts I and II planets 119 664 The PMC88 Catalogue, Part III -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Byte-per-byte Description of file: pmc88 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Bytes Format Units Label Explanation -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2- 5 I4 --- N sequence number in the Catalog 7- 11 A5 --- Cat other catalogue name 13- 18 I6 --- otherN star number in other catalogues 20- 24 F5.2 mag otherMag visual magnitude in other catalogues 26- 27 A2 --- Sp spectral type 30- 34 F5.2 a Ep-1900 mean epoch of the observations of R.A. and Dec 37- 38 I2 --- Nobs number of observations of R.A. and Dec. 41- 42 I2 h RAh observed J2000 R.A. at the mean epoch (hours) 44- 45 I2 min RAm observed R.A. at the mean epoch (minutes) 47- 52 F6.3 s RAs observed R.A. at the mean epoch (seconds) 55 A1 --- DE- observed J2000 Dec. at the mean epoch (sign) 56- 57 I2 deg DEd observed Dec. at the mean epoch (degrees) 59- 60 I2 arcmin DEm observed Dec. at the mean epoch (minutes) 62- 66 F5.2 arcsec DEs observed Dec. at the mean epoch (seconds) 67- 73 F7.3 s O-C_RA (O-C) in R.A. at the mean epoch to be added to the Source Catalogue 74- 79 F6.2 arcsec O-C_DE (O-C) in Dec. at the mean epoch to be added to the Source Catalogue 82- 86 F5.3 s e_RAs mean error of the observed R.A. 89- 92 F4.2 arcsec e_DEs mean error of the observed Dec. 95- 99 F5.2 a EpMag ? mean epoch of the observations of magnitude 102-103 I2 --- o_Mag ? number of observations of magnitude 105-109 F5.2 mag Mag ? observed magnitude at the mean epoch 111-114 F4.2 mag e_Mag ? mean error of the observed magnitude 116-124 A9 --- DM BD or CD numbers taken from PPM Catalog 126-134 A9 --- AGK AGK3 numbers -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Byte-by-byte Description of file: planets -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Bytes Format Units Label Explanations -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1- 12 A12 --- Planet Name of the Planet 13- 16 I4 --- Seq Sequential Number of the Observation for Each Planet 19- 32 F14.6 d ObsDate Julian Date of the Observation in UT1 35- 38 I4 --- ObsYear Year of the observation Date 40- 41 I2 --- ObsMon Month of the Observation Date 43- 44 I2 --- ObsDay Day of the Observation Date 49- 50 I2 h RAh Observed Geocentric Apparent R.A. (hours) (1) 52- 53 I2 min RAm Observed Geocentric Apparent R.A. (minutes) 55- 60 F6.3 s RAs Observed Geocentric Apparent R.A. (seconds) 63- 68 F6.3 s O-C_RAs (O-C) in R.A. 70- 75 F6.3 s RAcor Applied Phase Correction in R.A. 79 A1 --- DE- Observed Geocentric Apparent Dec. (sign) (1) 80- 81 I2 deg DEd Observed Geocentric Apparent Dec. (degrees) 83- 84 I2 arcmin DEm Observed Geocentric Apparent Dec. (minutes) 86- 90 F5.2 arcsec DEs Observed Geocentric Apparent Dec. (seconds) 93- 97 F5.2 arcsec O-C_DEs (O-C) of Declination 99-103 F5.2 arcsec DEcor Applied Phase Correction in Declination 108-112 F5.2 mag Mag ? Observed Magnitude 115-119 F5.2 mag O-C_Mag ? (O-C) of Magnitude -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Note (1): at equinox of date. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- See also: I/186 : Tokyo PMC Catalog 85 (Yoshizawa+ 1987) I/167 : Tokyo PMC Catalog 86 (Yoshizawa+ 1989) I/187 : Tokyo PMC Catalog 87 (Yoshizawa+ 1991) I/198 : Tokyo PMC Catalog 89 (Yoshizawa+ 1993) I/248 : Tokyo PMC Catalog 90-93 (Yoshizawa+ 1997) Historical Notes: * 30-Sep-1991: the catalogue was supplied to CDS by Shiro Nishimura; the reformatting of the data were carried out at the Astronomical Data Analysis Center of the National Astronomical Observatory, Japan. * 20-Feb-1996: Documentation standardized, using the same description as catalog I/198 by S.Nishimura [ADAC/NAOJ], from 01-Sept-1993, for the pmc88 part.
(End) [CDS] 20-Feb-1996
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