STARS
Yale Bright Star Catalog,
4th
(1982) and
5th
(1991) Editions: All-sky catalogs of 9,096 stars that are essentially complete to mag. 6.5.
Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory J2000 Catalog:
All-sky catalogs of 212,846 stars with mag., position, proper motion, Henry Draper and
Durchmusterung catalog identifications. The original SAO files are also included where only
brief identifications without extra comments are desired.
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Bonner Durchmusterung (BD):
A visual survey cataloging 325,037 stars between +89
degrees and -1 degrees dec with a nominal limiting magnitude of 9.5.
Southern Durchmusterung (SD):
A visual survey of 134,834 stars in dec zones -2 degrees to
-23 degrees (equinox 1875). The SD magnitude estimates extend to 9.9 mag with all fainter
stars assigned a magnitude of 10.
Cordoba Durchmusterung (CoD):
A visual extension of the Bonner Durchmusterung (BD)
containing 613,959 southern stars between -22 degrees and -89 degrees (equinox 1875)
with a limiting magnitude somewhat below 10.
Cape Photographic Durchmusterung (CPD):
A photographic survey of 454,877 southern
stars between -18 degrees and -90 degrees dec. Complete to photographic magnitude 9.2,
but is also practically complete, in or near the Milky Way, to magnitude 9.5.
Boss General Catalog of Stars:
An all-sky catalog of 33,342 stars brighter than 8th
magnitude. Cross indexed to HD and DM catalogs.
Preliminary Third Catalog of Nearby Stars:
All known stars (3,802) within 25 parsecs of the Sun.
New Luyten Two-Tenths Catalog of Stellar Proper Motions:
58,845 stars found to have relative annual proper motions exceeding about 0.18 arcsec.
Fifth Catalog of Cataclysmic Binary Stars, 1990:
168 true cataclysmic binaries, 36 low-mass X-ray binary stars and 28 related objects.
Wilson General Catalog of Stellar Radial Velocities:
An all-sky survey of 15,106 stars having no uniform magnitude cutoff; the faintest
star in the catalog is listed as magnitude 15.4.
Bayer (Greek letter labled) stars, equinox 2000.0:
The 1,565 stars found in the 4th edition of the Yale Bright Star Catalog with Greek letter
designations.
Flamsteed (Arabic number labeled) Star Catalog:
2,553 Flamsteed stars extracted from the 4th Edition of the Yale Bright Star Catalog.
Extends to -50 degrees and mag 8.
Sixth Catalog of Galactic Wolf-Rayet Stars, 1981:
159 Population I Galactic Wolf-Rayet
Stars.
Catalog of Spectroscopically Identified White Dwarfs:
1,279 white dwarfs that been identified spectroscopically up to January 1987.
Catalog of Probable Members of the SMC, 1979:
506 luminous stars found using an objective prism survey conducted for the purpose
of finding probable members of the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC).
Catalog of Selected M33 Star Fields:
100 field stars in four fields in the nearby spiral (Sc) galaxy M33.
Positions and Proper Motions Star Catalog (PPM):
An astrometic catalog containing 379,231 stars. It is practically complete to at
least V = 8.5. In photographic magnitudes this corresponds to roughly 9 mag.
The PPM is an extension of the FK5 system to higher star densities and fainter
magnitudes.
The 90,000 Stars Supplement To the PPM Catalog:
Positions and proper motions for the 89,676 star Supplement to the PPM catalog between
-90 degrees and +2 degrees dec. While these data are less precise than those in the
southern part of PPM, they are more precise than those of PPM north.
The Guide Star Catalog (GSC):
An all-sky astrometric and photometric catalog of nearly 19,000,000 objects,
split between over 15 million stars and some 3,000,000 non-stellar
objects (many being galaxies). It divides the sky into 9,537 regions. A GSC region averages
2,000 entries with a variance of less than 1,000 to over 13,000. Limiting magnitudes typically
range down to 15th, except in Milky Way regions where GSC cutoff magnitudes were set
brighter.
Henry Draper Catalog, 1985 edition:
Provides all-sky spectral classifications of 129,961 stars
down to about photographic magnitude 9. Plus an additional 142,195 ``Extensions'' stars
below 9.0 m(p) for selected areas.
The Washington Visual Double Star Catalog, 1984.0:
An all sky catalog of 73,610 double stars.
Moscow General Catalog of Variable Stars (GCVS), 4th edition:
An all sky catalog of 28,435 variable stars. Optional subsets of this data sorted by
variable type may be loaded.
New and Suspected Variable Stars:
An all sky catalog of 14,811 variable stars that have reported but unconfirmed variability.
Reference Catalog Of Galactic Novae:
283 objects known or believed to be novae at one time or another.
Green 1994 Catalog of Galactic Supernova Remnants:
182 Galactic Supernova Remnants (SNRs) known as of 1994.
Extragalactic Supernovae:
1885A-1995G: Contains all galaxies known to have produced
supernovae between 1885 (when the first recognized extragalactic supernova was observed
in M31) and supernova 1995G.
Galaxies Producing Multiple Supernovae:
57 galaxies which have produced 2 or more supernovae.