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I/221               The Magellanic Catalogue of Stars - MACS (Tucholke+ 1996)
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The Magellanic Catalogue of Stars - MACS
     Tucholke H.-J., de Boer K.S., Seitter W.C.
    <Astron. Astrophys. Suppl. Ser., 119, 91-98 (1996)>
    <The Messenger 81, 20 (1995)>
    =1996A&AS..119...91T =1995Msngr..81...20D
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ADC_Keywords: Magellanic Clouds ; Positional data

Description:
    The Magellanic Catalogue of Stars (MACS) is based on scans of ESO
    Schmidt plates and contains about 244,000 stars covering large areas
    around the LMC and the SMC. The limiting magnitude is B<16.5m and the
    positional accuracy is better than 0.5" for 99% of the stars. The
    stars of this catalogue were screened interactively to ascertain that
    they are undisturbed by close neighbours.


File Summary:
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 FileName    Lrecl    Records    Explanations
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ReadMe          80          .    This file
lmc.dat         52     175779    The Large Magellanic Cloud
smc.dat         52      67782    The Small Magellanic Cloud
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Byte-by-byte Description of file: lmc.dat, smc.dat
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   Bytes Format  Units   Label       Explanations
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   1- 12  A12    ---     MACS        Designation
  14- 15  I2     h       RAh         Right Ascension J2000 , Epoch 1989.0 (hours)
  17- 18  I2     min     RAm         Right Ascension J2000 (minutes)
  20- 25  F6.3   s       RAs         Right Ascension J2000 (seconds)
      27  A1     ---     DE-         Declination J2000 (sign)
  28- 29  I2     deg     DEd         Declination J2000 , Epoch 1989.0 (degrees)
  31- 32  I2     arcmin  DEm         Declination J2000 (minutes)
  34- 38  F5.2   arcsec  DEs         Declination J2000 (seconds)
      40  I1     ---     Npos        Number of positions used
  42- 46  F5.2   mag     Mag         []?=99.00 Instrumental Magnitude
                                           (to be used only in a relative sense)
      48  I1     ---     PosFlag     [0/1] Position Flag   (0: ok,
                                           1: internal error larger than 0.5")
      50  I1     ---     MagFlag     [0/1] Megnitude Flag  (0: ok,
                                           1: bad photometry or possible variable)
      52  I1     ---     BochumFlag    *[0] Bochum Flag
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Note on BochumFlag: 1 if in Bochum catalog of astrophysical information
    on bright LMC stars) (yet empty)
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Author's address:
    Hans-Joachim Tucholke    <tucholke@astro.uni-bonn.de>

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(End)            Hans-Joachim Tucholke [Univ. Bonn]                  20-Nov-1995