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Astronomical Catalogs and Catalog Formats
These catalogs are available and supported by
SAO/TDC
search and mapping software.
| Catalog or Format
| No. Stars
| Bytes
| Region Search
| Image Search
| Mapping
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| USNO-B1.0 Catalog
| 1,036,366,767
| 83,614,060,960
| sub1
(scat)
| imub1
(imcat)
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| GSC II Catalog (2.2.01)
| 998,402,801
| >80,000,000,000
| sgsc2
(scat)
| imgsc2
(imcat)
|
| 2MASS Point Source Catalog
| 470,992,970
| 31,775,592,000
| stmc
(scat)
| imtmc
(imcat)
|
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| 2MASS Extended Source Catalog
| 1,647,599
| 11,533,193
| stmx
(scat)
| imtmx
(imcat)
|
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| USNO UCAC5 Catalog
| 107,758,513
|
| sucac5
(scat),
|
imucac5
(imcat)
|
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| USNO UCAC4 Catalog
| 100,766,420
|
| sucac4
(scat),
|
imucac4
(imcat)
|
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| USNO UCAC3 Catalog
| 100,766,420
| 8,536,270,559
| sucac3
(scat),
|
imucac3
(imcat)
|
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| USNO UCAC2 Catalog
| 48,366,996
| 2,128,147,841
| sucac2
(scat),
|
imucac2
(imcat)
|
|
| Kepler Input Catalog
| 13,161,029
| 3,049,718,007
| skic
(scat),
|
imkic
(imcat)
|
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| GSC-ACT Catalog
| 25,541,952
| 1,231,787,520
| sgsca
(scat)
| imgsca
(imcat)
|
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| SDSS Photometry Catalog
| 53 million (DR1)
| ??
| ssdss
(scat)
| imsdss
(imcat)
|
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| HST Guide Star Catalog
| 25,541,952
| 1,231,787,520
| sgsc
(scat)
| imgsc
(imcat)
| skymap
|
| Tycho-2 Catalog
| 2,539,913
| 528,721,576
| sty2
(scat)
| imty2
(imcat)
|
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| USNO/Hipparcos ACT Catalog
| 988,758
| 318,380,076
| sact
(scat)
| imact
(imcat)
|
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| SKY2000 Catalog
| 299,167
| 11,368,374
| ssky2k
(scat)
| imsky2k
(imcat)
| skymap
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| PPM Catalog
| 378,910
| 22,734,656
| sppm
(scat)
| imppm
(imcat)
| skymap
|
| SAO Catalog
| 258,996
| 15,539,876
| ssao
(scat)
| imsao
(imcat)
| skymap
|
| IRAS Point Source Catalog
| 245,889
| 7,376,698
| siras
(scat)
| imiras
(imcat)
| skymap
|
| Hipparcos Catalog
| 118218
| 4492312
| ship
(scat)
| imhip
(imcat)
| skymap
|
| Yale Bright Star Catalog
| 9110
| 291548
| sbsc
(scat)
| imbsc
(imcat)
| skymap
|
| Starbase tab-delimited ASCII
| varies
| varies
| scat
| imcat
|
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| TDC
Space-Delimited ASCII
| varies
| varies
| scat
| imcat
| skymap
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| TDC
Binary
| varies
| varies
| scat
| imcat
| skymap
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| USNO-A2.0 Catalog
| 526,280,881
| 6,315,370,572
| sua2
(scat)
| imua2
(imcat)
| skymap
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| USNO-SA2.0 Catalog
| 55,368,239
| 664,418,868
| susa2
(scat),
|
imusa2
(imcat)
|
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| USNO-A1.0 Catalog
| 488,006,860
| 5,856,082,320
| sua1
(scat)
| imua1
(imcat)
| skymap
|
| USNO-SA1.0 Catalog
| 54,787,624
| 657,451,488
| susa1
(scat)
| imusa1
(imcat)
| skymap
|
| USNO J-1.0 Catalog
| 19,911,514
| 238,938,168
| sujc
(scat)
| imujc
(imcat)
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The WCSTools Catalogs page
tells how the catalogs are implemented at the Center for Astrophysics and
compares them.
The
U.S. Naval Observatory Astrometric Catalogs page
is a great source of actual catalogs, if not software to use them.
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