J/AN/323/484   Accurate coordinates of Planetary Nebulae (Kohoutek+, 2002)

Accurate coordinates of Planetary Nebulae. Kohoutek L., Kuehl D. <Astron. Nachrichten, 323, 484 (2002)> =2002AN....323..484K 2002AN....323..484K
ADC_Keywords: Planetary nebulae ; Positional data Keywords: planetary nebulae: general; stars: evolution Description: Accurate optical coordinates of 734 PNe, measured on the charts of the Digitized Palomar Sky Survey (DSS-2), are presented. As a result of the discussion about the external accuracy the constants -0.8" in RA and +0.8" in DEC should be added to the coordinates measured by us. They were used but rounded off already in CGPN(2000). File Summary: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- FileName Lrecl Records Explanations -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ReadMe 80 . This file table1.dat 68 761 Accurate coordinates table3.dat 76 41 Central star candidates remarks.dat 111 58 Remarks (concerns PNe and central stars) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- See also: IV/24 : Catalogue of Galactic Planetary Nebulae (Kohoutek, 2001) Byte-by-byte Description of file: table1.dat -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Bytes Format Units Label Explanations -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 A1 --- n_PK [*M] Possible (*) or Misclassified (M) PN. 2- 10 A9 --- PK PK Designation 12- 32 A21 --- Name Other name of the PN 33- 35 A3 --- n_Name [old ] old for old coordinates 37- 38 I2 h RAh Right Ascension J1950 (hours) 40- 41 I2 min RAm Right Ascension J1950 (minutes) 43- 47 F5.2 s RAs Right Ascension J1950 (seconds) 49 A1 --- DE- Declination J1950 (sign) 50- 51 I2 deg DEd Declination J1950 (degrees) 53- 54 I2 arcmin DEm Declination J1950 (minutes) 56- 59 F4.1 arcsec DEs Declination J1950 (seconds) 62 I1 --- C [1,5] Positional accuracy category (1) 65 A1 --- Cs [s] s: suspected central star measured (see Table 3) 67- 68 I2 --- Rem [1/39]? Remarks, in remarks.dat file -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Note (1): this quality (1=best) indicates the accuracy of the position: 1 = 1meas. σ=0.12arcsec 2 = 4meas. σ=0.14arcsec 3 = 4-6meas. σ=0.18arcsec 4 = 4meas. σ=0.49arcsec 5 = σ up to 12.8arcsec -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Byte-by-byte Description of file: table3.dat -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Bytes Format Units Label Explanations -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 A1 --- n_PK [*M] Possible (*) or Misclassified (M) PN. 2- 10 A9 --- PK PK Designation 12- 21 A10 --- PNG Designation in PNG (V/84) catalog 24- 33 A10 --- Name Other name of the PN 35- 36 I2 h RAh Right Ascension J2000 (hours) 38- 39 I2 min RAm Right Ascension J2000 (minutes) 41- 45 F5.2 s RAs Right Ascension J2000 (seconds) 47 A1 --- DE- Declination J2000 (sign) 48- 49 I2 deg DEd Declination J2000 (degrees) 51- 52 I2 arcmin DEm Declination J2000 (minutes) 54- 57 F4.1 arcsec DEs Declination J2000 (seconds) 60- 65 F6.2 deg GLon Galactic longitude 67- 72 F6.2 deg GLat Galactic latitude 75- 76 I2 --- Rem [40,50]? Remarks, in remarks.dat file -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Byte-by-byte Description of file: remarks.dat -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Bytes Format Units Label Explanations -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1- 2 I2 --- Rem Remark number 5 A1 --- --- [(] 6- 14 A9 --- PK PK number 15 A1 --- --- [)] Uncertainty flag on PK number 17-111 A95 --- Text Text of the remark -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- History: * 12-Sep-2002: Original version * 26-Apr-2009: Reformatted at CDS to isolate the * or M indication of possible/miclassified PN (was originally mixed with the PK name). Added table3. Acknowledgements: Lubos Kohoutek [lkohoutek(ar)hs.uni-hamburg.de]
(End) L. Kohoutek, D. Kuehl [Hamburg Observatory] 12-Sep-2002
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