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III/133         Michigan Catalogue of HD stars, Vol.4  (Houk+, 1988)
Catalogue of two-dimensional spectral types for the HD stars. Vol.4
     Houk N., Smith-Moore M.
    <Ann Arbor, Dept. of Astronomy, Univ. of Michigan (1988)>
ADC_Keywords: MK spectral classification


Description:
    Please refer to the 'adc.doc' file by Wayne H. Warren Jr.

See also:
    III/31  : Michigan Catalogue, Vol.1 (-90/-53deg, Houk N., 1975)
    III/51  : Michigan Catalogue, Vol.2 (-53/-40deg, Houk N., 1978)
    III/80  : Michigan Catalogue, Vol.3 (-40/-26deg, Houk N., 1982)


File Summary:

       FileName      Lrecl  Records   Explanations

ReadMe            80        .   This file
adc.doc           79      961   Documentation by Wayne H. Warren Jr.
vol4.dat         127    33301   The Catalogue (vol.4)
rem4.dat         375     5143   Notes (to vol.4)
plates4.dat       32      505   Summary of Plates


Byte-by-byte Description of file: vol4.dat

   Bytes Format  Units   Label    Explanations

   1-  6  I6     ---     HD       Henry Draper Catalog (HD) number
       7  A1     ---     Case     [*] if sp. type has lower case in printed ver.
       8  A1     ---    n_SpType  [+] if spectral type is from HD Catalog
   9- 26  A18    ---     SpType   Spectral type
      27  A1     ---    Ave_Flag  [A] if classification used is an average.
      28  I1     ---    q_SpType  [1/4]? Quality of the classification,
                                    see adc.doc
  29- 33  A5     ---     Remark   Remark (see adc.doc Appendix A
                                    for description)
  35- 40  A6     mag     Ptg      Photographic magnitude from HD catalog
      41  A1     ---    Var_Flag  'V' if star is known or suspected variable
  43- 44  I2     h       RAh      Hours RA, 1900.0
  46- 47  I2     min     RAm      Minutes RA, 1900.0
  49- 52  F4.1   s       RAs      Seconds RA, 1900.0
      54  A1     ---     DE-      Sign Dec, 1900.0
  55- 56  I2     deg     DEd      Degrees Dec, 1900.0
  58- 59  I2     arcmin  DEm      Minutes Dec, 1900.0
  61- 62  I2     arcsec  DEs      Seconds Dec, 1900.0
  64- 67  I4  0.01min/yr precRAm  Centennial precession in RA, minutes
  69- 72  F4.1  0.01s/yr precRAs  Centennial precession in RA, seconds
      74  A1 0.01arcmin/yr precDE-  Centennial precession in Dec, sign
  75- 76  I2 0.01arcmin/yr precDEm  Centennial precession in Dec, minutes
  78- 79  I2 0.01arcsec/yr precDEs  Centennial precession in Dec, seconds
  81- 85  F5.1   deg     GLON     Galactic longitude
  87- 91  F5.1   deg     GLAT     Galactic latitude
  93-102  A10    ---     DM       Durchmusterung identification
                                    ('BD', 'CD', or 'CP' in bytes 93-94;
                                      -ZZNNNNN in bytes 95-102)
 106-111  I6     ---     SAO      [1/258997]? SAO Catalog number
 112-115  A4     ---     Plate1   Plate code #1 (see file plates4)
 116-119  A4     ---     Plate2   Plate code #2 (see file plates4)
 120-123  A4     ---     Plate3   Plate code #3 (see file plates4)
 124-127  A4     ---     Plate4   Plate code #4 (see file plates4)


Byte-by-byte Description of file: rem4.dat

   Bytes Format  Units   Label    Explanations

   1-  6  I6     ---     HD       Henry Draper Catalog (HD) number
   8-375  A368   ---     Remark   Remarks in free form text


Byte-by-byte Description of file: plates4.dat

   Bytes Format  Units   Label    Explanations

   1-  4  A4     ---     Code     Plate code
   7- 11  I5     ---     Number   Plate Number
  15- 32  A18    ---     Date     Exposure date


Historical Notes:
  * 22-Nov-1993: list of plates added at CDS
  * 08-Dec-1994: list of plates provided by Shiro Nishimura [ADAC/NAOJ]
(End)                                    Francois Ochsenbein [CDS]   08-Dec-1994