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	VOTable: an XML data format for virtual astronomy
		Catalogues, that is tables of the properties of celestial objects (celestial coordinates, brightness etc.), are very important in astronomy and constitute a significant component of the Virtual Observatory.
		Astronomical catalogues are tables of the positions and measured properties (such as brightness) of a list of celestial objects.
		Astronomical catalogues, like other astronomical and, indeed, scientific data, are usually rich in metadata, and these metadata are needed to interpret the catalogues correctly.
	www.idealliance.org /papers/dx_xmle03/papers/04-05-04/04-05-04.html (3812 words)

	Object-Relational DBMSs for Large Astronomical Catalogue Management
		Astronomical catalogues containing from a million up to hundreds of millions of records are becoming commonplace.
		Since even larger catalogues will be released in a few years, researchers are faced with the problem of accessing these databases in a general but efficient manner, in order to be able to fully exploit their scientific content.
		Large astronomical catalogues, with one million up to hundreds of millions of records, are becoming commonplace (e.g., Tycho, GSC I, USNO-1.A).
	www.adass.org /adass/proceedings/adass97/baruffoloa1.html (1450 words)

	astronomical catalogues
		More than 2,000 astronomical catalogues and data tables are in use; the older method of printing catalogues has been superceded by storing them on compact disks and as computer databases, which can be accessed over the Internet.
		Different catalogues have been compiled for different types of objects, parts of the sky, regions of the electromagnetic spectrum, and so forth.
		The ones listed here are particularly important because of their generality or frequency of use, or for historical reasons.
	www.daviddarling.info /encyclopedia/A/astronomical_catalogues.html (183 words)

	HTML Version of AstroWeb Database (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The Strasbourg astronomical Observatory is an institute of the Université Louis Pasteur.
		The purpose of ARAS in fostering the participation of amateur astronomers in scientific projects in the field of spectroscopy is not to implement and coordinate observing campaigns.
		DENIS is a deep astronomical survey of the Southern Sky in two near-infrared bands (J at 1.25 µ and K at 2.16 µ) and one optical band (I at 0.8 µ) simultaneously, conducted by a European consortium, using a one meter telescope (ESO, La Silla).
	www.vilspa.esa.es /astroweb/newmaster.html (9953 words)

	Astronomer's Bazaar
		Most of the CDS catalogues are available on-line, and have standard documentation and format, following the Standard Description for Astronomical Catalogues.
		These catalogues and datasets are currently distributed on magnetic tape, diskettes, CD-ROMs, or via network.
		Scientists producing new datasets or astronomical catalogues are encouraged to make their computer-readable material and documentation available for distribution to the worldwide astronomical community, by depositing a copy in one of the international astronomical data centers.
	cdsweb.u-strasbg.fr /Cats.html (653 words)

	Information Extraction: New Developments in Astronomical Information Retrieval for Electronic Publications
		In the astronomical community, the scientific literature and the data that support the research are well-defined and electronically available.
		These services give access both to astronomical catalogues and published tables, thanks to the definition of a common standard which is used both by data centers and publishers.
		Astronomical object name extraction can be done by the authors and publishers in parallel with automatic techniques, but an expert will still have to control that information.
	www.eso.org /gen-fac/libraries/lisa3/lestevens.html (2768 words)

	The OaPd System for Web Access to Large Astronomical Catalogues
		At the Padova Astronomical Observatory (OaPd), we are developing a system for managing large sets of astronomical data, such as the GSCII catalog that will be released in the near future.
		At the Padova Astronomical Observatory (OaPd), we are developing a system for managing large sets of astronomical data, such as the soon-to-be-released GSCII catalog.
		Examples of these meta-data are the list of catalogues, the list of fields of each catalogue, the units of a field, etc. The servlet communicates with its clients by exchanging serialized Java objects through an HTTP connection.
	adass.org /adass/proceedings/adass00/P2-18 (1050 words)

	CURSA news
		Subsets comprising all the objects in a remote catalogue lying within a given angular distance of a given point on the celestial sphere can be extracted and saved as a local catalogue.
		Most of the catalogues are located at either the Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Leicester, the European Southern Observatory (ESO) at Garching, or the Canadian Astronomy Data Centre at the Dominion Astrophysical Observatory.
		The catalogues at Leicester are a copy of the catalogues provided by the High Energy Astrophysics Science Archive Research Center (HEASARC) at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center and form a particularly extensive collection.
	star-www.rl.ac.uk /Bulletin/97sep/a04.html (1279 words)

	HTML Version of AstroWeb Database (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Astronomical Data Analysis Center (ADAC) of National Astronomical Observatory, Japan (NAOJ) provides all the catalogues in its collection on-line, including the mirror copy of the CDS on-line catalogues and journal tables.
		Peoria astronomical Society is an Amateur Astronomy Society Dedicated: To promote the science of astronomy By fostering astronomical education; by providing incentives for astronomical observation and research; by assisting communication among amateur astronomers.
		The Eastbay Astronomical Society, founded in 1924, is associated with the Chabot Observatory and Science Center in Oakland, California.
	www.astroweb.com.ar /astroweb/newmaster.html (8298 words)

	Viewing the sky with a CAT's eye
		Though CURSA and CAT are intended primarily for use with astronomical catalogues, they can be used equally well with other tabular data, such as a table of private astronomical results, or, indeed, data which are entirely non-astronomical, provided only that they are in an appropriate format.
		This subset comprises all the quasars in the catalogue brighter than nineteenth magnitude and with a redshift greater than three; a total of some 74 objects out of a total of 4234 entries in the catalogue.
		Today many catalogues are available, often with hundreds of thousands or even millions of entries, providing a wealth of information on most branches of astronomy.
	star-www.rl.ac.uk /Bulletin/95dec/a20.html (1151 words)

	Data and Archive Centers
		DENIS is a deep complete survey of the astronomical sources of the Southern Sky in 2 near-infrared bands (J at 1.25 micron & K at 2.16 micron) and one optical band (I at 0.8 micron) simultaneously, using a one meter ground-based telescope at La Silla (Chile), with limiting magnitudes 18.5, 16.5 and 14.0, respectively.
		The Journal of Astronomical Data accepts raw and reduced data from observations as well as from theoretical research, reduction software, complete descriptions of new instruments, PhD theses with extensive data tables, catalogues, graphs, computer code, and also lengthy articles, or regular articles accompanied by the data on which it is based.
		Terapix is an astronomical data processing center dedicated to very large CCD images and massive data flow provided by the CFHT Megacam camera.
	www.cv.nrao.edu /fits/www/yp_center.html (7318 words)

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		In order to be able to use the various tools, we therefore chose to keep the astronomical catalogues as plain ascii files, and to store the description of the catalogue as a separate ascii file.
		But catalogues have not to stay in this J section for ever: later, more "con- sistent" catalogues could be generated from one or several publications - long observation sets are frequently published in several papers.
		First line: catalogue designation, an abbreviated title followed within round brackets by the last name of the first author, a +sign if there are multiple authors, and the year - this information has to be condensed in a single line of 80 characters or less; 2.
	www.maa.agleia.de /Cat/Doc/std_v14.txt (6322 words)

	Astronomical Catalogues (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		We consider here ``astronomical catalogues'' as static, final compilations of data for a given set of cosmic objects.
		However, catalogues prepared in such a way (as stated in the accompanying documentation file) should be treated with some caution, since OCR is never really free of errors and careful proof-reading is necessary to confirm its conformity with the original.
		This directory is further subdivided into nine sections of catalogues (from stellar to high-energy data), and the ``J'' directory for smaller tables from journals.
	www.obs-hp.fr /www/andernach/node3.html (892 words)

	STAR Atlas:PRO Astronomy Software - Astronomical Catalogue Data
		This catalogue includes 5,250 Rich Clusters of Galaxies spread over the North and South Hemispheres.
		catalogue with extensive high-precision data of the brightest 118,218 Stars.
		Maximum Database Population for data integrated from On-Line databases (upto 1-Billion objects for the USNO A2.0 and GSCS 2.2 catalogue).
	www.skylab.com.au /astronomical_catalogues.html (354 words)

	Astronomical Catalogues (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		These catalogs were prepared by the Astronomical Data Center (ADC) at the Goddard Space Flight Center.
		People in or near the US might directly use the service from the ADC.
		If you are interested in the one or more catalogs in the FITS format, please send me a note.
	www.maa.agleia.de /Cat/index.html (83 words)

	Catálogos. Directorio. Astronomia y Ciencias del Cosmos. AstroRED (v8). Tu portal de Astronomía en español (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Bibliographic catalogue of stellar radial velocities: (1991-1994) (Malaroda et al.
		Catalogue of [Fe/H] determinations for FGK stars: 2001 edition (Cayrel de Strobel et al.
		The HIPPARCOS and TYCHO Catalogues (1997, ESA SP-1200)
	www.astrored.org /directorio/catalogos (964 words)

	CDS: The Catalogue of Catalogues (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Tables from Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific (121 catalogues)
		Tables from publications from other journals (206 catalogues)
		Catalogues ordered by their Usual Name (1583 catalogues)
	cdsweb.u-strasbg.fr /cats/cats.html (103 words)

	Nausicaa DELMOTTE's Homepage
		I did narrow-band imaging of ionized regions in the Large Magellanic Cloud (Prog ID 68.C-0019(A)) with the Wide Field Imager (WFI) at the 2.2m telescope of the La Silla Observatory, Chile.
		The purpose of this work was to build a Master Catalogue of stars towards the Magellanic Clouds (MC2) based on multiwavelength cross-identification of several astronomical catalogues: DENIS, 2MASS, GSC-II, UCAC1.
		The MC2 provides an unprecedented basis for the study of stellar populations in the Magellanic Clouds and for further cross-identifications with catalogues at other wavelengths.
	astro.u-strasbg.fr /~delmotte/CV.html (908 words)

	Astronomical Resources
		Astronomical Headlines from the IAU telegrams and minor planet circulars etc, together with a related Index
		VizieR is a front end which allows access to a large list of catalogues, though it is a little flaky in operation
		Listing of astronomical books which can be accessed for free on-line.
	www.astro.rug.nl /ASTRORESOURCES/astroresources.php (678 words)

	A and A links
		A lot of astronomical data obtained by space observatories become available to the general community after the propreitary period (usually one year) is over.
		The most useful place is their Astronomical Data Center (ADC), which archives useful catalogues, where you can search for electronic versions of catalogues published in journals by name.
		The full gamut of astronomical catalogues is available at CDS at Strasbourg.
	meghnad.iucaa.ernet.in /aalinks.shtml (425 words)

	VOTable: an XML data format for virtual astronomy
		Most modern catalogues are produced in a computer-readable form and many are available; for example the Centre de Données astronomiques de Strasbourg (CDS
		is a new format specifically developed to represent subsets of rows and columns selected from catalogues in the VO and returned to the user for further analysis.
		The FITS format is now maintained and documented by the FITS Support Office of the Astrophysics Data Facility at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, see URL:.
	www.idealliance.org /papers/dx_xmle03/papers/04-05-04/04-05-04.xml (3682 words)

	Celestial Maps v.8.0 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Celestial Maps 8.0 is an astronomical software that produces accurate maps of the sky in five types of projections.
		All these catalogues add together about 22 millions of objects up to the maximum mag 17.
		While the first two are intended to produce maps for general (planetarium) purposes, the last one is built to run professional charts using 10 major astronomical catalogues.
	ovidiu-v.tripod.com /maps80/maps80.html (942 words)

	Celestial Maps v.9.0
		Celestial Maps v.9.0 is an astronomical software that produces accurate maps of the sky in five types of projections.
		Celestial Maps v.9.0 runs 15 astronomical catalogues, organized in a Small Database up to the magnitude 7.5 or a Large Database including four professional star catalogues (SAO, PPM, GSC and Tycho), two catalogs of asteroids and comets (ASTORB and COMETS), and two deep sky catalogues (Messier and NGC2000).
		While the first two are intended to produce maps for general (planetarium) purposes, the last one is built to run professional charts using 15 major astronomical catalogues.
	www.astroclubul.org /ovidiuv/maps90/maps90.html (1263 words)

	Bob Bunge's Articles and Babble - Reflections in the Eyepiece, March 1991
		Most of these catalogues were produced by professional astronomers, often while in the process of long term projects.
		To obtain a copy of any of these catalogues, please send the proper number of formatted DD 5.25?inch floppy disk(s) or 720k 3.5?inch disk(s) along with a 8x10?inch SASE.
		Requests for large numbers or all of the listed catalogues may be delayed unless a donation is enclosed to cover the cost of making photocopies of the documentation (I am a poor college student and have to pay $.10 per page copied) until I acquire funding for the copying costs.
	www.ladyandtramp.com /articles/m-111/march_1991.htm (913 words)

	A new research tool to retrieve data from astronomical catalogues and tables (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		A new research tool to retrieve data from astronomical catalogues and tables
		Examples, illustrations and figures about this new service will be presented, and its role in the framework of the world-wide access to the astronomical data will be discussed.
		The exact URL and name of this new service will be publicly announced in early January 1996.
	www.aas.org /publications/baas/v27n4/aas187/S091003.html (152 words)

	VizieR Service
		VizieR provides access to the most complete library of published astronomical catalogues and data tables available on line, organized in a self-documented database.
		Specific care has been taken for optimizing access to some very large catalogues such as UCAC2, the USNO-B1, or the 2MASS last release.
		Note that VizieR does not contain all available online catalogues; some catalogues are not suitable and some less frequently used catalogues have not yet been incorporated into the VizieR database.
	vizier.u-strasbg.fr (269 words)

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		Astrophysical and Chronological Deductions from early Astronomical Records,,,,,Newcastle,1972 52,astronomy,,,,,,Waerden,B.L. van der,,,,,Ontwakende Wetenschap,,,,,,1950 52,astronomy,,,,,,Waerden,B.L. van der,,,,,Die Sichtbarkeit der Sterne in der Naehe des Horizontes,VjsNG,99,20ff,,Zuerich,1954 52,astronomy,,,,,,Waerden,B.L. van der,,,,,Science Awakening,,,,,,1954 52,astronomy,,,,,,Waerden,B.L. van der,,,,,Erwachsende Wissenschaft - Bd.
		Ph.D. diss,Providence?,1959/1960,,,,,, 521.98,"Astronomical catalogues, tables and programs ",,,,,,Stahlman,William D.,Gingerich,Owen,,,Solar and Planetary Longitudes for Years -2500 to +2000 by 10-Day Intervals,,,,Un of Wisconsin Press,Madison,1963,,,,,, 521.98,"Astronomical catalogues, tables and programs ",,,,,,Sufi,as-,,,,,(catalogue of stars),,,,,,10th century 521.98,"Astronomical catalogues, tables and programs ",,,,,,Tuckermann,Bryant,,,,,Planetary.
		Her Majesty's Stationary Office,,,,,London,1961 521.98,"Astronomical catalogues, tables and programs ",,,,,,,,,,,,Wuestenfeld-Mahlerische Vergleichungstabellen zur muslimischen und iranischen Zeitrechning mit Tafeln zur Umrechnung orient-christlichen Aeren.
	ourworld.compuserve.com /homepages/cplawassist/paper/99999.txt (3029 words)

	Astronomical observatory, University of Ljubljana
		Astronomers run university courses of astronomy for astronomers as well as physicists and primary and secondary school teachers.
		Research is in large part done in collaboration with the Astronomical Observatory of Padua.
		Cananea, ESO, Liverpool Telescope, San Pedro Martir and and with JMU Liverpool Telescope and TNG on the Canary islands.
	www.fiz.uni-lj.si /astro (168 words)

	Celestial Maps
		While the first two are intended to produce maps for planetarium purposes, the last is built to run professional charts using a few major astronomical catalogues.
		In 2001 the International Astronomical Union (IAU) assigned the name Birlan to the asteroid 10034, for the contributions to the minor planets research of one of Maps' co-authors, Dr.
		In June 2001 two of us and Valentin Grigore, the president of the Romanian Society for Meteors and Astronomy (SARM) built and used Celestial Maps v.8.5 to edit the Map of the Northern Sky, a high-quality printed map to assist the amateur astronomer in learning the wonders of the sky.
	www.astroclubul.org /ovidiuv/Maps10 (1446 words)

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