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An All-Sky Portable (ASP) Optical Catalogue

Astrophysics of Galaxies 2017-06-28 v1 Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics

Abstract

This optical catalogue combines the all-sky USNO-B1.0/A1.0 and most-sky APM catalogues, plus overlays of SDSS optical data, into a single all-sky map presented in a sparse binary format which is easily downloaded at 9Gb zipped. Total count is 1,163,237,190 sources and each has J2000 astrometry, red & blue magnitudes with PSFs and variability indicator, and flags for proper motion, epoch, and source survey & catalogue for each of the photometry and astrometry. The catalogue is available on the PASA datastore at http://dx.doi.org/10.4225/50/5807fbc12595f .

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@article{arxiv.1705.05434,
  title  = {An All-Sky Portable (ASP) Optical Catalogue},
  author = {Eric Wim Flesch},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1705.05434},
  year   = {2017}
}

Comments

Accepted by Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia (PASA). 13 pages, 15 figures, 2 tables. Catalog available at http://dx.doi.org/10.4225/50/5807fbc12595f

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