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II/171              Parenago Catalog of Stars in Orion Nebula   (Parenago 1954)
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Machine-Readable version of the Parenago Catalogue of stars
in the area of the Orion Nebula
     Parenago P.P.
    <Trudy Gos. Astron. Inst. im. Shternberga, 25 (1954)>
    =1954TrSht..25....1P
     Malkov O.Yu.
    <Bull. Inf. CDS 40, 13 (1992)>
    =1992BICDS..40...13M
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ADC_Keywords: Magnitudes, photographic ; Nebulae ; Stars, variable

Description:
    The present  catalogue is a machine-readable  version of the catalogue
    of  stars in the area of the  Orion nebula, published by P.P. Parenago
    (1954). The sky  area between  5h 24m  and 5h  36m in  right ascension
    (1900.0) and between  -4  and  -7  degrees  in  declination  (1900.0),
    containing the Orion nebula, has been investigated in that work.

    Ten of  variable stars in  original Parenago (1954)  catalogue had CSV
    numbers  (Kukarkin et al., 1951) but since  that time all of them were
    confirmed as variables and included in GCVS (Kholopov et al., 1985a&b,
    1987). We superseded CSV-numbers by GCVS-names in the machine-readable
    version for the following stars:
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         Number in         CSV-number       GCVS-name
         the catalogue
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           1605            606              V372 ORI
           1613            607              V373 ORI
           1635            608              V374 ORI
           1713            609              V375 ORI
           1748            610              V387 ORI
           1762            100569           V376 ORI
           1974            617              V377 ORI
           2183            625              V388 ORI
           2393            630              V380 ORI
           2478            634              V381 ORI
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File Summary:
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 FileName    Lrecl    Records    Explanations
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ReadMe          80          .    This file
catalog.dat     51       2983    The Parenago Catalogue
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See also:
    V/73 : Emission-Line Stars of the Orion Population (Herbig+ 1988)
    III/177 : H-alpha emission stars in the Orion region (Wiramihardja+ 1993)

Byte-by-byte Description of file: catalog.dat
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   Bytes Format Units   Label     Explanations
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       1  A1    ---     Member   *[*]  asterisk if star is a member.
   2-  5  I4    ---     Parenago  Sequential number.
       6  A1    ---   m_Parenago *[A] Blank for one star
       8  I1    h       RAh       [5] Right Ascension 1900 (hours)
  10- 11  I2    min     RAm       Right Ascension 1900 (minutes)
  13- 14  I2    s       RAs       Right Ascension 1900 (seconds)
      15  A1    ---     DE-       [-] Declination 1900 (sign)
  16- 17  I2    deg     DEd       [4/7] Declination 1900 (degrees)
  19- 22  F4.1  arcmin  DEm       Declination 1900 (minutes)
  24- 27  F4.1  mag     mpg      *[2/18]? Photographic magnitudes.
      28  A1    ---     n_mpg    *[ENS] Flag on mpg
      30  A1    ---     l_mpv     [<] '<'  should be read as "mpv fainter than"
  31- 34  F4.1  mag     mpv       [2/18]? photovisual magnitudes, if existing
  36- 43  A8    ---     GCVS      Name of variable star in GCVS <II/139>
  45- 51  A7    ---     SpType   *Spectral type
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Note on Member:
    the asterisk is set if a star is a member of the Orion nebula, blank
    otherwise. Probably, not every member of the nebula is marked by '*',
    but as Parenago (1954) noted "it was better to omit some of them
    (members), than to include nonmember stars" (p.250). Altogether 634
    stars have asterisks.
Note on m_Parenago:
    There are two different stars with number 2617 in the catalogue:
    2617 and 2617A.
Note on mpg:
    Blank when the star is variable; in that case the corresponding
    designation from GCVS (Kholopov et al., 1985a&b, 1987) appears in
    columns 36-45.
Note on n_mpg: the flag has the following meaning:
    'E' - if photographic magnitude represents approximate estimation
          of visual or infrared magnitudes;
    'N' - if the star is in the nebula and its influence
          can be perceptible;
    'S' - if the influence of the nebula is strong;
    blank otherwise.
Note on SpType:
    the spectral type (if existing) is a mean value both from literature
    and from Parenago's classification.
    The peculiarities 'e', 'ea' (read "e alpha") and 'eb' (read "e beta")
    mean hydrogen emission at the moment of observations.
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References:
  Kholopov  P.N.,  Samus'  N.N.,  Frolov M.S., Goranskij V.P.,
     Gorynya N.A., Kireeva N.N., Kukarkina  N.P.,  Kurochkin
     N.E, Medvedeva G.I., Perova N.B., Shugarov S.Yu. 1985a,
     General  Catalogue  of  Variable Stars, Fourth Edition,
     vol.I, Nauka, Moscow. (Catalog <II/139>)
  Kholopov  P.N.,  Samus' N.N.,  Frolov M.S.,  Goranskij V.P.,
     Gorynya  N.A., Kazarovets E.V., Kireeva N.N., Kukarkina
     N.P.,  Kurochkin  N.E,  Medvedeva  G.I.,  Perova  N.B.,
     Rastorguev   A.S.,   Shugarov   S.Yu.   1985b,  General
     Catalogue of Variable Stars,  Fourth  Edition,  vol.II,
     Nauka, Moscow. (Catalog <II/139>)
  Kholopov  P.N.,  Samus' N.N.,  Frolov M.S.,  Goranskij V.P.,
     Gorynya N.A., Karitskaya E.A., Kazarovets E.V., Kireeva
     N.N.,  Kukarkina N.P., Medvedeva G.I., Pastukhova E.N.,
     Perova N.B., Shugarov S.Yu. 1987, General Catalogue  of
     Variable Stars, Fourth Edition, vol.III, Nauka, Moscow.
     (Catalog <II/139>)
  Kukarkin B.V., Parenago P.P.,  Efremov Yu.I.,  Kholopov P.N.
     1951, Catalogue of Suspected Variable Stars, Moscow.
  Parenago P.P.  1954, "Trudy  Gosudarstvennogo Astronomicheskogo
     Instituta im Shternberga", vol.25.

Historical Notes:
    The catalogue was keypunched at the CDS and was checked at the
    Soviet Center of Astronomical Data. It was documented by
    O.Yu. Malkov in 1992.
  * 04-Oct-1997: documentation standardized at CDS (F. Ochsenbein)
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(End)       Malkov O.Yu (25-Feb-1992), Francois Ochsenbein [CDS]     04-Oct-1997

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