PPM Star Catalogue: the 90000 Stars Supplement
Abstract
The PPM Star Catalogue is the successor of the SAO Catalogue. It contains precise positions and proper motions of 378 910 stars on the whole sky in the J2000/FK5 coordinate system. The 90 000 Stars Supplement presented here provides astrometric data of similar quality for about 90 000 additional stars on the southern hemisphere. Magnetic tapes containing PPM and its Supplement can be obtained from the Centre de Donnees Astronomiques de Strasbourg (CDS), France and the Astronomical Data Centre at Goddard Space Flight Centre, Greenbelt, U.S.A.
- Publication:
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Astronomy and Astrophysics Supplement Series
- Pub Date:
- June 1994
- Bibcode:
- 1994A&AS..105..301R