II/167      General Catalogue of Photometric Data               (Hauck+ 1990)

The General Catalogue of Photometric Data Hauck B., Nitschelm C., Mermilliod M., Mermilliod J.C. <Astron. Astrophys. Suppl. Ser. 85, 989 (1990)> =1990A&AS...85..989H 1990A&AS...85..989H
ADC_Keywords: Photometry Description: This catalogue is an index of photometric data published in the astronomical literature until July 1988, and contains 165994 stars. File Summary: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- FileName Lrecl Records Explanations -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ReadMe 80 . This file catalog.dat 106 165896 Main file. Version: April 1990 num_sys.txt 80 2626 Description of the code numbering system refs.txt 106 286 keys of the photometric systems and references -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- See also: http://obswww.unige.ch/gcpd/gcpd.html : the GCPD Home Page Byte-by-byte Description of file: catalog.dat -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Bytes Format Units Label Explanations -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1- 10 A10 --- LID Lausanne identification code (LID) (see the "num_sys.txt" file) 11- 12 A2 --- n_LID Remarks on duplicity and variability 13- 14 I2 h RAh [00/24]? Right Ascension (1950) 15- 16 I2 min RAm ?Right Ascension 17- 18 I2 s RAs ?Right Ascension 19 A1 --- DE- *Declination (1950) 20- 21 I2 deg DEd ?Declination 22- 25 F4.1 arcmin DEm ?Declination 26- 32 F7.3 mag Vmag ?Johnson V Magnitude 33-106 37I2 --- key1 ?Keys of the photometric systems. Explanations of the keys are in the file "refs.txt" -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Note on DE-: Note that columns 24-25 are blank when the accuracy of declination is only 1'. Author's Note: Please, send your comments and found errors to the authors, e.g. at e-mail address: or Updates and Modifications: * November 1991: this introduction file was modified, and the "refs.txt" file was added at Centre de Donnees astronomiques de Strasbourg (CDS) * 03-Aug-1995: the ReadMe file created from earlier documentation [ADC] Periods were added to col. DEm to comply with the F format.
(End) N. Paul M. Kuin [ADC/NSSDC] 1995-Aug-03
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