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Bright Star Catalog - 5th Edition

Sample from list used at Kitt Peak telescopes.



 Line# RA           DEC         Epoch    RA     DEC   MAG    Title   Comments:
 HR#                                     PM     PM           HD #    Spec    Cross-ref    R-Velocity
   189 00:44:26.40 +47:51:51.00 2000.00 -0.026 +0.015 5.67   4142 #  B5V     BD+47  181   RV-060
   190 00:43:50.20 -12:00:42.00 2000.00 +0.007 -0.204 6.02   4145 #  K2III * BD-12  126   RV-009
   191 00:43:21.20 -57:27:47.00 2000.00 -0.006 +0.011 4.36   4150 #  A0IV    CP-58   42   RV+002

*An asterisk at the end of the spectral-type field indicates that more information is available. Please refer to the printed version of the Yale Catalogue of Bright Stars.

View entire catalog here. This catalog contains 9110 objects.

This is in fact the Yale Catalogue of Bright Stars containing 9110 objects. Positions were calculated from equinox J2000, epoch 2000.0. It includes stars of magnitude 6.5 and brighter.

Listings are in order of Right Ascension with the object number coresponding to it's HD ([1/9110]+ Harvard Revised Number = Bright Star Number). Each object is also listed with, proper motions; V-magnitude; spectral type; DM (Durchmusterung Identification): and the Heliocentric Radial Velocity (km/s). See example above.

This catalog and the above description were obtained from the:
Centre de Données astronomiques de Strasbourg (CDS) web site. Please look here for more information.

Last Modified March. 17, 2004

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