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II/167      General Catalogue of Photometric Data (Hauck+ 1990)
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The General Catalogue of Photometric Data
     Hauck B., Nitschelm C., Mermilliod M., Mermilliod J.C.
     <Astron. Astrophys. Suppl. Ser. 85, 989 (1990)>
     =1990A&AS...85..989H
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ADC_Keywords: Photometry

Description:   
 This catalogue is an index of photometric data published in the                
 astronomical literature until July 1988, and contains 165994 stars.            

File Summary:
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 FileName    Lrecl   Records   Explanations
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ReadMe          80         .   This file
catalog.dat    106    165896   Main file. Version: April 1990
num_sys.doc     80      2626   Description of the code numbering system 
refs.doc       106       286   keys of the photometric systems and references
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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- 10   A10    ---    LID   Lausanne identification code (LID) (see num_sys.doc)
  11- 12   A2     ---    rem   Remarks on duplicity and variability 
  13- 14   I2     h      RAh   [00/24]? Right Ascension (1950)
  15- 16   I2     min    RAm   ?Right Ascension 
  17- 18   I2     s      RAs   ?Right Ascension
      19   A1     ---    DE-  *Declination (1950)
  20- 21   I2     deg    DEd   ?Declination 
  22- 25   F4.1   arcmin DEm   ?Declination 
  26- 32   F7.3   mag    V     ?Johnson V Magnitude
  33-106 37I2     ---    key1  ?Keys of the photometric systems. Explanations of 
                               the keys are in the file refs.doc
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Note on DE-:
  Note that columns 24-25 are blank when the accuracy of declination
  is only 1'. 

Author's Note:
  Please, send your comments and found errors to the authors,       
  e.g. at e-mail address:
    mermia@scsun.unige.ch
     or    
    mermio@scsun.unige.ch

Updates and Modifications:
  This introduction file was modified, and the ref file was added at
  Centre de Donnees astronomiques de Strasbourg (CDS), November 1991. 
  (cats @ simbad.u-strasbg.fr)                 
  3-Aug-1995 the ReadMe file created from earlier documentation [ADC]
  Periods were added to col. DEm to comply with the F format.
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(End)                              N. Paul M. Kuin [ADC/NSSDC] 1995-AUG-03