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- Sig/M volume 31 Yale Catalog of Bright Stars
- (volume 1 of 8)
-
- 31.01 Star.Doc 19k
- 31.02 Star.Bas 5k
- 31.03 Starval.Bas 4k
- 31.04 Star1.Dat 177k
- 31.05 Star1.Bad 10k
- 31.06 Ikb-1.Rom 8k
- 31.07 Ikb-2.Rom 4k
- 31.08 Ikb-1&2.Doc 1k
-
- The material was compiled by
-
- Dr. Wayne Warren
- National Space Science Data Center
- Code 601
- Goddard Space Center
- Greenbelt, Maryland 20771
-
- *****************************************************************
- * *
- * YALE CATALOGUE OF BRIGHT STARS *
- * *
- * DOCUMENTATION FOR THE MACHINE-READABLE VERSION OF *
- * THE YALE CATALOGUE OF BRIGHT STARS *
- * R-SAW-7/79-36 *
- * *
- *****************************************************************
-
- The YALE CATALOGUE OF BRIGHT STARS is in the public domain, and
- this documentation on the catalogue was extracted almost verbatum
- from a booklet, also in the public domain, whose preparation
- was funded by:
-
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration
- Goddard Space Flight Center
- Greenbelt, Maryland 2077l
-
- under contract NAS 5-25369 by:
-
- Theresa A. Nagy
- Systems and Applied Sciences Corporation
- 6811 Kenilworth Avenue
- Riverdale, Maryland 20840
-
- This database is revision 3 of the Yale Catalogue of Bright Stars,
- and it was obtained on 9 track tape on March 17, 1981 from:
-
- Dr. Wayne Warren
- National Space Science Data Center
- Code 601
- Godard Space Center
- Greenbelt, Md 20771
-
- Dr. Warren says that revision 4 of the catalogue is due in late
- 1981, and that it will have revisions in the magnitude and color
- data for about 10% of the stars. The National Space Science Data
- Center does NOT have the capability of supplying the data base
- or revisions on floppy disks.
-
- The people who funded the documentation of this catalog, and the
- people who did the documentation work for a living. PLEASE DO
- NOT MAKE THEM COMPLETLY UNPRODUCTIVE BY CALLING THEM UP FOR
- INFORMATION.
-
- The documentation is all here in this file. Two
- programs written in Microsoft BASIC, Version 5.2, STAR.BAS,
- showing how to access the data and STARVAL.BAS, which reads all
- of the database and performs a SIMPLE check to verify database
- integrity are on this disk. The database, called STARx.DAT, is
- on this and seven additional disks.
-
- disk1 STAR.DOC documentation
- STAR.BAS sample database access program
- STARVAL.BAS database validation program
- STAR1.BAD BAD database on stars 0001 thru 0050
- to show the errors that STARVAL
- can and cannot find in the data.
- STAR1.DAT database on stars 0001 thru 0884
- disk2 STAR2.DAT database on stars 0885 thru 2059
- disk3 STAR3.DAT database on stars 2060 thru 3234
- disk4 STAR4.DAT database on stars 3235 thru 4409
- disk5 STAR5.DAT database on stars 4410 thru 5584
- disk6 STAR6.DAT database on stars 5585 thru 6759
- disk7 STAR7.DAT database on stars 6760 thru 7934
- disk8 STAR8.DAT database on stars 7935 thru 9110
-
- *****************************************************************
- * *
- * Table of Contents/List of Tables *
- * *
- *****************************************************************
-
- Section 1 - Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-1
- Section 2 - Tape Contents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-1
- Section 3 - Tape Characteristics . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-1
- Section 4 - Remarks and Modifications . . . . . . . . . . 4-1
- Section 5 - Sample Listing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-1
-
- Table 2-l Tape Contents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-2
- Table 3-1 Tape Characteristics . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-2
- Table 4-1 Published Errata in the Third Edition . . . . 4-3
- Table 4-2 Stars with Sign Error of the Galactic
- Latitued in the Published Catalogue . . . 4-4
- Table 5-1 Sample Listing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-1
-
- *****************************************************************
- * *
- * Section 1 - Introduction *
- * *
- *****************************************************************
-
- In recent years there has been a trend away from publishing
- catalogues in book form to preparing catalogues by computer
- and distributing them on magnetic tape, with appearance in
- book form as a secondary occurrence. This memo is the result
- of the development of the documentation for the machine-
- readable version of the catalogue and includes the basic
- information given the origional preface of the published
- catalogue. This memo should be distributed along with any
- copy of the machine-readable version of the catalogue.
-
- *****************************************************************
- * *
- * Section 2 - Tape Contents *
- * *
- *****************************************************************
-
- A byte-by-byte description of the contents of the catalogue
- is given in Table 2-1. The information in the "Description"
- column is derived mainly from the published version of the
- catalogue whenever possible. The "Suggested Format" column
- is for FORTRAN-formatted reads.
-
- **************** Table 2-1 Tape Contents ***********************
-
- Byte Description Format
-
- 1-4 Yale Bright Star (BS) I4
- (= Harvard Revised (HR) Number)
-
- 5-7 Flamsteed Number I3
-
- 8-14 Name 7A1
- (Greek letters coded: alpha = 0l . .
- omega = 24)
-
- 15 Sign of Bonner Durchmusterung (BD) A1
-
- 16-22 DM Number I7
-
- 23-28 Henry Draper (HD) Number I6
-
- 29-33 Boss General Catalog (GC) Number I5
-
- 34-37 Trig. Parallax Catalogue Number I4
- (when followed by decimal - 1963
- Supplement)
-
- 38-43 Radial Velocity Catalogue Number I6
-
- 44 Double Star Catalogue A1
- b - implies Aitken's Catalogue of
- Double Stars
- R - implies Rossiter's Catalogue of
- Southern Double Stars
- Other catalogues or lists unnumbered,
- are represented be letters:
- I - Innes
- F - Finsen
- K - Kuiper
- B - van Biesbroeck or van den Bos
-
- 45-49 Catalogue Number I5
-
- 50-51 Blank or letters indicating componets 2A1
- of multiple-star system.
-
- 52-59 Variable Star Catalogue 8A1
- (1958 or 1961 Supplement, suspected
- but unconfirmed variables are
- represented by "VAR?"left justified)
-
- 60-65 ***** Right Ascension (epoch 1900.0) *****
-
- 60-61 Hours I2
-
- 62-63 Minutes I2
-
- 64-65 Seconds I2
-
- 66 Sign of Ten-Year change in Right Ascension A1
-
- 67-69 Ten-Year change in Right Ascension I3
- (unit = seconds)
-
- 70-74 ***** Declination (epoch 1900.0) *****
-
- 70 Sign A1
-
- 71-72 Degrees I2
-
- 73-74 Minutes I2
-
- 75-79 ***** Galactic Longitude *****
-
- 75-77 Degrees I3
-
- 78-79 Minutes I2
-
- 80-84 ***** Galactic Latitued *****
-
- 80 Sign A1
-
- 81-82 Degrees I2
-
- 83-84 Minutes I2
-
- 85-88 BS-HR Number I4
-
- 89-94 ***** Right Ascension (epoch 2000.0) *****
-
- 89-90 Hours I2
-
- 91-92 Minutes I2
-
- 93-94 Seconds I2
-
- 95-99 ***** Change in Right Ascension *****
- ****** (epoch 2000.0 - 1900.0) ******
-
- 95 Sign A1
-
- 96-97 Minutes I2
-
- 98-99 Seconds I2
-
- 100-104 ***** Declination (epoch 2000.0) *****
-
- 100 Sign A1
-
- 101-102 Degrees I2
-
- 103-104 Minutes I2
-
- 105-107 ***** Change in Declination *****
- **** (epoch 2000.0 - 1900.0) ****
-
- 105 Sign A1
-
- 106-107 Minutes I2
-
- 108-111 ***** Visual Magnitude *****
-
- 108 Sign A1
- (if minus (-) magnitude)
-
- 109-111 Visual Magnitude I3
- (unit = 0.01 magnitude)
-
- 112-113 Source: 2A1
- b - Indicates photoelectric determination
- by UBV System
- R - Indicates HR magnitudes reduced by
- Rybka to V system
- H - Indicates original HR magnitude was
- was retained
- B - Indicates blended images
-
- ***** Color *****
-
- 114 Sign A1
-
- 115-117 B-V in UBV System I3
- (unit = 0.01 magnitude)
-
- 118-139 Spectral Class 22A1
- (if composit spectral class,
- plus (+) in byte 139)
-
- 140 Sign A1
-
- 141-144 value I4
- (unit = 10^-3 arcsec)
-
- 145-149 ***** Annual Proper Motion in Declination *****
-
- 145 Sign A1
-
- 146-149 Value I4
- (unit = 10^-3 arcsec)
-
- 150-154 ***** Parallax *****
-
- 150 Sign A1
-
- 151-153 Trigonometric Parallax I3
- (unit = 10^-3 arcsec)
-
- 154 D indicates Dynamical Parallax, which is A1
- given only when Trigonometric Parallax
- is not available
-
- 155-160 ***** Radial Velocity *****
-
- 155 Sign A1
-
- 156-160 Velocity (km/sec) 5A1
- ("V?" appears not right justified)
-
- ***** Double Star Data *****
-
- 161-163 Magnitude difference between two componets I3
- of a visual binary, or between two brightest
- componets of a multiple system from the
- double star catalog, which may be inconsistent
- with the values given in bytes 107-110.
- (unit = 0.01 magnitude)
-
- 164-167 Maxium observed separation of the same two I4
- componets acording to the paticular catalog
- cited.
- (unit = 0.1 arcsec)
-
- 168 Number of componets having lettered I1
- designations in the catalog of double stars.
-
- 169-170 Remarks:
- 1 - The companion is optical.
- 2 - Visual binary.
- 3 - Common proper motion componets.
- 4 - Fixed-seperation companion.
- 5 - Two spectra are indicated on the
- radial velocity plates.
- 6 - The star is a spectroscopic binary.
- 7 - Magnitude and color given refer to
- the combined light of two or
- more stars.
-
- The following letters refer to types of
- remarks that appear in the book form of
- the catalogue:
-
- D - Double star data.
- G - Cluster, group, aggregate, or
- association membership.
- M - Comments on magnitude or color, except
- data on known variable stars.
- N - The name of a bright star.
- R - Radial velocity comments, including
- data on spectroscopic binaries.
- S - Comments on Spectra.
- V - Remarks on variable stars other than
- the data from General Catalogue of
- Variable Stars and its Supplement,
- which are abstracted in the Remarks
- for all stars with named variable
- star designations.
- * - Any combination of the above categories
- and other comments not falling under
- any of those categories.
-
- 171-178 Right ascension (1900) in radians F8.4
-
- 179-186 Declination (1900) in radians F8.4
-
- 187-194 Right ascension (2000) in radians F8.4
-
- 194-202 Declination (2000) in radians F8.4
-
- *****************************************************************
- * *
- * Section 3 - Tape Characteristics *
- * *
- *****************************************************************
-
- ***** The Star Catalogue is normally supplied on IBM compatible
- ***** 9 track computer tape (eg. EBCDIC characters). It is also
- ***** available on special request on DEC compatible 9 track
- ***** computer tape (eg. ASC-II characters). The data on the
- ***** floppy disks are in ASCII.
-
- The information contained in this section is sufficient for
- the user to read the machine-readable version of the catalogue.
- The statistics of the contents of the entire tape are given in
- Table 3-1, if more than one number is given for any entry this
- refers to a data set with more than one file. The multiple
- numbers then refer to the first, second, third, etc. files of
- the tape.
-
- *********** Table 3-l IBM/EBDIC Tape Characteristics ***********
-
- Catalogue YBS
- Number of Tracks 9
- Density (BPI) 1600
- Number of files 1
- Logical Record Length (bytes) 202
- Blocksize (bytes) 20200
- Blocking Factor 100
- Record Format (IBM OS/JCL) FB
- Total number of logical Records 9110
- Total number of blocks 92
-
- ********** Table 3-1 DEC/ASCII Tape Characteristics ************
-
- Catalogue YBS
- Number of Tracks 9
- Density (BPI) 800
- Number of files 1
- Logical Record Length (bytes) 202
- Normal Blocksize (bytes) 15150
- Last Block Blocksize (bytes) 7070
- Blocking Factor 75
- Record Format (IBM OS/JCL) FB
- Total Number of logical Records 9110
- Total Number of Blocks 122
-
- *****************************************************************
- * *
- * Section 4 - Remarks and Modifications *
- * *
- *****************************************************************
-
- The magnetic tape version of the Third Revised Edition
- of the Catalogue of Bright Stars (1964, Yale University
- Observatory) was received in 1972 from the U. S. Naval
- Observatory. This version of the catalogue had seperate
- data files for the left-hand and the right-hand pages of
- the catalogue. Listed below are the modifications to
- that version.
-
- 1. Overpunches existed in several fields. These
- fields were decoded and all amperstands were
- converted to plus (+) signs.
-
- 2. Right-hand and left-hand page dara were merged
- into one data file.
-
- 3. The tape was converted from a 7-track to a
- 9-track tape.
-
- 4. The record size was expanded from 84 bytes
- (each page with overpunches included) to
- 202 bytes.
-
- 5. All published errata (cf. table 4-1) have been
- incorporated in the magnetic tape version.
-
- 6. One star (BS 1612) was found to have a blank
- magnitude field which when read with a FORTRAN
- F format yielded a zero value. This field was
- corrected to 3.8 as per the published catalogue.
-
- 7. The double star number or leter was not right
- or left justified. The bytes containing this
- information were modified so that only the
- number appears in bytes 45-49 and the letter
- portion of the identification appears only in
- bytes 50-5l.
-
- 8. The equatorial coordinates at both epochs 1900
- and 2000 were computed in radians and added to
- each record.
-
- In addition to the published errata other identification
- errors have been noted over the past years. These possible
- errors are listed below for reference but the corrections
- have not been made to the machine-readable version (except
- for star BS 1101) of the catalogue since they do not
- constitute a published set of errata.
-
- BS # Published Value Correction
-
- 67 DM +1 degree 28 DM +0 degree 28
- 1101 DM -1 degree 572 DM -0 degree 572
- 6165 B-V +0(m/.)26 B-V -(m/.)26
- 7705 HD 191570 HD 191571
- 8417 HD 209790 HD 209791
- 8841 HD 219449 HD 219430
-
- ***** (m/.) was printed as a "." with a "m" directly above
- ***** the "."
-
- The second edition of the Yale Bright Star Catalogue
- (1940) included all except 19 of the 9110 stars first
- listed in the Harvard Annals (Volume 50, 1908), the "HR"
- catalogue whose numbering was exactly taken over in the
- Yale Bright Star Catalogue (YBS). There are 19 blank
- records in both the published version of the catalogue
- as well as the machine-readable version of the YBS.
- There are 9091 records with information, and 19
- records with just the HR number (the remainder of the
- record is blank). The HR stars which are blank are
- given below.
-
- 92 95 182 663 1057
- 1630 1841 2472 2496 3515
- 3671 6309 6437 6515 7138
- 7189 7539 8296 8945
-
- In addition to the information given in the Catalogue
- of Bright Stars - Third Revised Edition, the value of
- the 10-year change in the right ascension (bytes 66-69)
- is given plus the equatorial coordinates at both epochs
- (1900 and 2000) in radians (bytes 171-202).
-
- The published version of the catalogue had sign errors
- for the stars listed in Table 4.2. For all of the stars
- listed a minus sign should appear for the sign of the
- galactic latitude in the hard copy, the magnetic tape
- version is correct.
-
- It should be noted that more stars have colors on the
- machine-readable version of this catalogue than given
- in the published version of the catalogue. Also,
- sometimes the spectral type differs from that as listed
- in the Third Revised Edition (e.g. HR 72 is given as
- a G0 star in the published catalogue but as a G5 IV-V
- star on the tape). It is unclear what or who is the
- source of these updates.
-
- ******** Table 4-1 Published errata in the Third Edition ********
-
- BS # Column For Read
-
- 472 R blank 3
- 967 Radial Velocity -65 -6
- 969 Radial Velocity +22 +2
- 1210 Double Srars:
- delta m blank 4.2
- Sep blank 75.3
- No blank 3
- 1966 RA (2000) 2x 27
- 2063 DM 11711 1171a
- 2402 DM 136 1136
- 2564 Dec (1900) 1' 18'
- 3366 HD 72622 72292
- 3445 B-V -0.71 +0.71
- 3759 Radial Velocity +98 +10
- 3962 HD 87330 87318
- 4101 R blank 1
- 4450 delta alpha 5v 55
- 5422 R 2 1
- 5703 Dec (1900) + -
- Galactic Long 20 deg 59' 347 deg 43'
- Galactic Lat +53 deg 21' +34 deg 3'
- Dec (2000) +14 deg 49' -15 deg 33'
- 5839 Radial Velocity +8 +4
- 6206 Double Stars: Sep 957. 95.7
- 6616 B-V +1.16 +0.70
- 6622 Spectral Class B35 B3V
- 6984 RA (1900) 27s 37s
- Galactic Long l' 2'
- Galactic Lat 5' 3'
- RA (2000) 4s 14s
- 7257 Radial velocity +16 +13
- 7517 HD 186648 186675
- 7543 R blank 1
- 7567 Variable Star Cat V Cyg V280 yg
- 7645 R blank 1
- 8225 R blank 1
- 8570 HD 213306 213296
- 8571 HD 213307 213306
- 8833 R blank 1
-
- ********** Table 4-2 Stars with sign error of the **************
- ********** galactic latitude in the published catalogue. ********
-
- 93 488 561 839 964 1046 1073 1324
- 1330 1550 1612 1615 1689 1779 1795 1805
- 1843 1850 1914 1945 2074 2116 2135 2184
- 2223 2250 2253 2269 2287 2342 2362 2385
- 2404 2422 2432 2441 2474 2479 2517 2530
- 2582 2622 2639 2694 2723 2796 2825 2853
- 2923 2992 3004 3034 3099 3113 3160 3170
- 3177 3237 3237 3242 3253 3267 3270 3296
- 3327 3328 3520 3588 3614 3784 3837 3875
- 3920 4091 4095 4114 4144 4147 4169 4177
- 4179 4188 4198 4210 4228 4239 4271 4487
- 4499 4511 4541 4573 4599 4603 4644 4729
- 4730 4730 4781 4771 4830 4972 5171 5349
- 5459 5460 5546 5873 5937 6197 6381 6392
- 6398 6450 6456 6522 6700 6716 6724 6727
- 6762 6798 6825 6838 6858 6946 6973 7158
- 7315 7331 7332 7357 7437 7458 7472 7490
- 7540 7670 7743 7770 7826 7911 7926 7984
- 8023 8035 8053 8064 8107 8136 8161 8185
- 8206 8259 8677 8745 8797 8803 8894 8990
- 9100
-
- *****************************************************************
- * *
- * Section 5 - Sample Output Listing *
- * *
- *****************************************************************
-
- The following is a listing of the EBCDIC (ASCII) characters
- on the machine readable version of this catalogue. If this
- document represents a binary tape, this listing is a formatted
- listing for convience. The sample listing represents the
- contents of the first phusical block on the tape. The header
- numbers (first three lines) when read vertically refer to the
- byte which then agrees with the information in table 2-1.
-
- ********* Table 5-1 Sample Output Listing **********************
-
- ***** note: due to lazyness and your probable lack of a 132
- ***** column line printer, I have reformatted the sample listing
- ***** and only included a few stars vs the 100 stars in the
- ***** documentations sample listing. You should be able to
- ***** get the general idea tho.
-
- Bytes 1 2 3 4 5
- 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789
-
- 000-050 0001 +4404550 3 54 35 46
- 051-100 0 0 2+ 31+444011426-16530001 0 511+ 5 9+
- 101-150 4513+33 646 R A0 -0016-0017
- 151-200 - 18 29 2153 0.0001 0.7796 0.0226 0.78
- 201-202 92
-
- 000-050 0002 - 104525 6 51 32
- 051-100 235956+ 31- 1 3 9819-61 80002 0 5 4+ 5 8-
- 101-150 030+33 628 +110G G9 +0039-0055
- 151-200 + 14 6.2829 -0.0183 0.0221 -0.00
- 201-202 87
-
-
- ***** note: due to the poor quality of the photoreduced
- ***** printout, 5s, 6s, 8s, & 9s may have been mistaken
- ***** each other.
-
- IMSAI made two keyboards that had an 8035 microprocessor in the
- keyboard.
-
- The first was known as an IKB-1, and it had it's
- program in a 2716 EPROM. The code for this EPROM is in file
- IKB-1.ROM. Onlythe first half half of this rom is used, and the
- second half is filled with FF's.
-
- The second was known as an IKB-2, and it had it's
- program in a 2708 EPROM. The code for this EPROM is in file
- IKB-2.ROM.
-
-