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I/5       Proper Motions in Cape Zone Catalogue -40/-52            (Jones+ 1936)
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Proper Motions of Stars in the Zone Catalogue -40 to -52 degrees
of 20843 Stars for 1900
    Jones H.S., Jackson J.
    <His Majesty's Stationery Office, London (1936)>
    =1936pmsz.book.....J
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ADC_Keywords: Positional data ; Proper motions

Description:
    This catalog, listing the proper motions of 20,843 stars
    from the Cape Astrographic Zones, was compiled from three series of
    photographic plates. The plates were taken at the Royal Observatory,
    Cape of Good Hope, in the following years: 1892-1896, 1897-1910,
    1923-1928. Data given include centennial proper motion, photographic
    and visual magnitude, Harvard spectral type, Cape Photographic
    Durchmusterung (CPD) identification, epoch, right ascension and
    declination for 1900.

File Summary:
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  FileName      Lrecl  Records   Explanations
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ReadMe             80        .   This file
czc.dat            62    20843   The catalogue
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Byte-by-byte Description of file: czc.dat
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   Bytes Format Units   Label     Explanations
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       1  A1    ---     ---       [5] Number 5
   2-  6  I5    ---     CZC       [1/20843]+ Catalogue Identification Number
   7- 10  F4.1  mag     Vmag      ? Visual Magnitude
  11- 12  I2    h       RAh       Right Ascension for 1900 hours
  13- 14  I2    min     RAm       Right Ascension for 1900 minutes
  15- 18  I4    0.01s   RAcs      Right Ascension seconds in 0.01sec 1900
      19  A1    ---     DE-       [-] Declination Sign
  20- 21  I2    deg     DEd       [39/51] Declination for 1900 degrees
  22- 23  I2    arcmin  DEm       Declination for 1900 arcminutes
  24- 26  I3  0.1arcsec DEds      Declination for 1900 arcseconds
  27- 31  I5    cyr     Ep-1900   [-318/1156] Epoch -1900
  32- 34  I3    ---     CPDZone   [-52/-39]? Cape Photographic
                                        Durchmusterung Zone
  35- 39  I5    ---     CPDNo     ? Cape Photographic Durchmusterung Number
  40- 43  F4.1  mag     Pmag      ? Photographic Magnitude
  44- 47  A4    ---     Sp        HD Spectral Type
  48- 52  I5   0.1ms/yr pmRAs    *? Proper Motion in RA
  53- 57  I5    mas/yr  pmRA     *? Proper Motion in RA
  58- 62  I5    mas/yr  pmDE      ? Proper Motion in Dec
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Note on pmRAs, pmRA:
    the relation is   pmRA = 15 * pmRAs * cos(DE)
    if pmRAs is expressed in s/yr and pmRA in arcsec/yr
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(End)                                   Julie Anne Watko [SSDOO/ADC] 03-Nov-1995

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