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VII/44B      Star Clusters & Associations II. Globular Clusters (Ruprecht+ 1981)
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Catalogue of Star Clusters and Associations. II. Globular Clusters.
     Ruprecht J., Balazs B., White R.E.
    <Akademiai Kiado, Publ. House Hungarian Acad. Sciences, Budapest (1981)>
    =1981csca.book.....R
    <Soviet Astronomy 27, 358 (1983)>
    =1983SvA....27..358R
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ADC_Keywords: Clusters, globular

Description:
    The catalog is the complete bibliographical listing for globular
    clusters from the second edition of the "Catalogue of Star Clusters
    and Associations (CSCA)" edited by Alter et al. (1970), and the
    "Supplement to the CSCA" by Ruprecht et al. (1981). Thus, it covers
    the literature through 1973.

    The file "main.dat" contains the original data: for each cluster, the
    first line contains the running number (GCL) followed by designations
    used by various authors; the second line contains the 1950
    coordinates, the 50-yr precession, the galactic coordinates, the
    galactic direction cosines and the position on the POSS charts;
    the lines following provide the following parameters:

               YEAR: Year of the literature reference
               NAME: Author
        PUBLICATION: Reference
                 AD: Apparent diameter of the cluster (arcmin)
               DIST: Distance of the cluster (pc)
                 LD: Linear diameter of the cluster (pc)
                  N: Number of stars studied
                 CE: Color excess
                 SP: Integrated spectrum
                 RV: Radial velocity (km/s)
                 MT: Total (integrated) magnitude
               NOTE: Notes

    The file "clusters.dat" has been created from second lines; missing
    positions were filled with the help of the SIMBAD data-base
    <http://simbad.u-strasbg.fr/Simbad>.

File Summary:
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 FileName    Lrecl    Records    Explanations
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ReadMe          80          .    This file
clusters.dat    86        137    List of globular clusters
main.txt       120      12059    Bibliography of globular clusters
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See also:
    VII/5   : Excerpt from the Catalogue of Star Clusters and Associations
    VII/31  : Part I: Associations
    VII/101 : Part III: Open Clusters
    VII/103 : Catalogue of galactic globular clusters by R. Monella, 1985,
    VII/151 : Structure parameters of galactic globular clusters by
              R.F. Webbink, 1985, in IAU Symp. 113
              "Dynamics of star clusters", Ed. J. Goodman & P. Hut, 541

Byte-by-byte Description of file: clusters.dat
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   Bytes Format  Units   Label    Explanations
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   1-  9  A9     ---     GCl      Cluster name (starting with GCL)
  10- 15  A6     ---     Page     Card (or page) number of the second edition
  17- 25  A9     ---     Name     Other name of the cluster
  28- 29  I2     h       RAh      Right Ascension 1950 (hours) (1)
  31- 34  F4.1   min     RAm      Right Ascension 1950 (minutes) (1)
      36  A1     ---     DE-      Declination 1950 (sign) (1)
  37- 38  I2     deg     DEd      Declination 1950 (degrees) (1)
  40- 41  I2     arcmin  DEm      Declination 1950 (minutes) (1)
  44- 49  F6.2   deg     GLON     Galactic longitude (1)
  51- 56  F6.2   deg     GLAT     Galactic latitude (1)
  60- 77  A18    ---     POSS     Palomar Sky Survey chart with its RA and Dec
  80- 82  I3     mm      Xpos     []? Position on the Palomar chart
                                      from lower left corner
  84- 86  I3     mm      Ypos     []? Position on the Palomar chart
                                      from lower left corner
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Note (1): the position was added at CDS for additional clusters, i.e.
          GCL names with decimal figures.
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Historical Notes:
  * November 1983: Tape provided to CDS by Moscow Data Centre
  * in 1985: description of the machine-readable version provided by
             Dr Ch. Peterson, Univ. California, Berkeley.
  * October 1991: CD-ROM edition "Selected Astronomical Catalogs" Vol. 1
                  by ADC/GSFC, directory /nonstell/clusters/globular
  * 06-Jul-1994: Addition of "clusters" file at CDS
  * 02-Nov-1995: "ReadMe" file revisited at CDS
  * 11-Nov-1996: Ypos data for GCL-100  2929   Pal 8 were "73 " changed to
                 " 73" without checking.

References:
  Alter G., Ruprecht J., and Vanysek V., 1970, "Catalog of Star Clusters
    and Associations", 2nd edition, Akad. Kiado, Budapest.
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(End)                                     Francois Ochsenbein [CDS]  02-Nov-1995