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:
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FileName Lrecl Records Explanations
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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
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See also:
http://obswww.unige.ch/gcpd/gcpd.html : the GCPD Home Page
Byte-by-byte Description of file: catalog.dat
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Bytes Format Units Label Explanations
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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"
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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