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I/71         Bonner Durchmusterung Supplemental Stars     (Warren+, 1980)
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Catalog of Supplemental Stars to the Bonner Durchmusterung
   Warren W.H. Jr., Kress K.
   <unpublished (1980)>
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ADC_Keywords: Durchmusterungen

Abstract:
   The machine-readable version of the Catalog of Supplemental Stars to the
   Bonner Durchmusterung is a compilation of Bonner Durchmusterung stars
   having lower case letter designations in the original published edition
   of the catalog. The data include all information given in the original
   published edition as footnotes except for the old spectral types
   sometimes reported there.

Description:
   The Bonner Durchmusterung catalogs (Argelander 1859-62, Kuestner 1903),
   declination zones +89deg. to -01deg., contain supplemental stars having
   lower case letter designations following the BD numbers after which they
   have been inserted. Many problems of identification have arisen over the
   years because the supplemental stars have been included in certain
   machine-readable catalogs without their letter designations, thus making
   it impossible for a computer to distinguish between a BD star and its
   insert(s). The need for a machine-readable version of the supplemental
   stars arose in connection with identifying stars in other catalogs in
   order to add the letter designations to them.

   The initial catalog of supplemental stars was prepared from the second
   edition of the BD (Kuestner 1903), but proofreading and checking were
   accomplished by using the reprinted edition (Bonn Universitaets
   Sternwarte 1968) which incorporated all errata known at that time. In
   that way, it was possible to simultaneously derive tables of
   supplemental stars added, deleted, or modified for the reprinted
   edition.

File Summary:
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 FileName        Lrecl          Records          Explanations
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ReadMe              80                .          This file
catalog.dat         27              838          The catalog
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Byte-by-byte Description of file: catalog.dat 
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   Bytes   Format       Units        Label        Explanations
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       1    A1          ---          BDs          BD number sign
   2-  3    I2          ---          BDz          BD zone
   5-  8    I4          ---          BDno        *BD number within zone
       9    A1          ---          let          Letter designation
  10- 11    I2          h            RAh         *Right ascens.(1855)hours
  12- 13    I2          min          RAm         *Right ascen.(1855)min
  14- 15    I2          0.1s         RAs         *Right ascen.(1855)sec 
      16    I1          ds           RAds        *Right ascen.(1855)decisec 
      17    A1          ---          DE-         *Sign of declination (1855)
  18- 19    I2          deg          DEd         *Declination (1855) degrees
  20- 21    I2          0.1arcmin    DEm         *Declination (1855) minutes
      22    I1          darcmin      DEdm        *Declination (1855) decimin
  24- 27    A4          mag          mag         *Magnitude
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Note on BDno:
   BD numbers are determined by the position of the footnoted star in the
   original published catalog.
Note on RA* and DE*:
   Equinox 1855.
Note on mag:
   Magnitudes are visual and were taken directly from the published
   catalog.

History:
   The original BD supplemental data were transferred to coded forms by K.
   Kress at the National Space Science Data Center (NSSDC), NASA Goddard
   Space Flight Center. They were also transferred to punched cards at
   NSSDC, and thence to a computer disk file accessible via an interactive
   system. The listed file was then proofread against the reprinted
   microversion (Bonn Universitaets Sternwarte 1968) and additions,
   deletions, and modifications were made to the file by W. H. Warren Jr.

   All letter designations are coded as lower case characters just as they
   appear in the original published catalog.

   The order of the stars in the catalog is from north to south and
   increasing right ascension within each declination zone. The magnitude
   data must be read in character format because the words VAR and NOV
   occur within the field and byte 27 contains a ? in one case.

   Tables 1-3 list stars that were either added, deleted, or had their
   designations changed in the 1968 reprinted edition of the BD. These
   lists enable the user to resolve differences between this catalog of
   supplemental stars and the 1903 edition of the published catalog, which
   is much more widely available than the 1968 edition.

                                   Table 1
                        Stars Added in Reprinted Edition
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-00 2281a   +26 1414a    +35  180a    +42 3093a    +45 3139a    +48 3799a
-00 3110a   +26 2056a    +36 4154a    +42 4100a    +45 3141a    +49   80a
-00 4212a   +26 2059a    +37 3418a    +42 4178a    +46  489a    +49  937a
+00 4718a   +28  258a    +39 4869a    +42 4611a    +46  499a    +49 1405a
+02 2309a   +28 1280a    +40  260a    +43 1164a    +46 2755a    +49 1571a
+03 1727a   +28 4536a    +40 2004a    +43 1784a    +46 2844a    +49 2117a
+04 2289a   +29 3503a    +40 2006a    +43 2563a    +46 2886a    +49 3452a
+04 3561a   +29 4240a    +40 3209a    +43 3248a    +46 2912a    +49 3546a
+05  462a   +29 4470a    +40 4729a    +43 3913a    +46 3116a    +49 4309a
+12  206a   +30  420a    +41  312a    +43 4086a    +46 3934a    +50  242a
+15 4266a   +30 4456a    +41 1607a    +43 4119a    +47  630a    +50 1907a
+16 4370a   +31  366a    +41 1608a    +43 4388a    +47 1278a    +56  606a
+17 2116a   +31 2042a    +41 2269a    +44  312a    +47 3074a    +56 2616a
+18  368a   +32 4341a    +41 2680a    +44 1308a    +47 3202a    +57 2864a
+18 3421a   +32 4668a    +41 2680b    +44 2480a    +48 1302a    +58  764a
+19  339a   +33   21a    +41 3640a    +44 2721a    +48 1391a    +58 1096a
+21 1842a   +33 1429a    +42  376a    +44 3419a    +48 1538a    +59 2826a
+21 2355a   +33 4238a    +42  401a    +45  513a    +48 1783a    +67 1046a
+21 3114a   +34  527a    +42 1084a    +45 1068a    +48 1986a    +76  857a
+23 1503a   +34  666a    +42 1798a    +45 1073a    +48 2827a    +78  314a
+26   71a   +34 4595a    +42 2954a    +45 1215a
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                                    Table 2
    Supplemental BD Stars Deleted from Original Edition in Reprinted Edition
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 +13 5168a  +15  612a   +46 1767a
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                                    Table 3
      Modifications of Original Supplemental Numbers in Reprinted Edition
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 +40 4729a changed to +40 4729b, +40 4729a added
 +48 1302a changed to +48 1302b, +48 1302a added
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Acknowledgements:
   The original document for this catalog was prepared in Script by Wayne H.
   Warren Jr.  It was translated to ASCII and put into the current standard 
   form by the undersigned. The only other change was to fill blanks in the
   position coordinates with zeros to facilitate proper reading.
 
References:
   Argelander, F. 1859-62, Bonner Sternverzeichnis. Erste bis dritte
      Sektion, Astronomischen Beobachtungen auf der Sternwarte der
      Koeniglichen Rhein. Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universitaet zu Bonn, Baende
      3-5.
   Bonn Universitaets Sternwarte 1968, Bonner Durchmusterung, Noerdlichen
      Teil, Deklinations-Zonen -1deg. bis +89deg. Sternverzeichnis, Vierte
       Auflage herausgegeben von der Universitaets-Sternwarte Bonn.
   Kuestner, F. 1903, Bonner Durchmusterung des Noerdlichen Himmels, zweite
      berichtigte Auflage, Bonn Universitaets Sternwarte.
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(End)          Nancy G. Roman        [ADC/SSDOO]        Jun-13-1995 

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