Accesses to Astronomical Catalogues

The Strasbourg astronomical Data Center (CDS) collects and distributes astronomical data catalogues, related to observations of stars and galaxies, other galactic and extragalactic objects, solar system bodies and atomic data. It is also a repository of the IAU Commission 27 Archive of Unpublished Observations of Variable Stars

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|| Access to Catalogues ||
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Query the list of catalogues
 by keywords, author names, words, catalogue number ...

          
     
     
 

Alternative accesses: 


browse the list of catalogues,
       and get access to summary descriptions of each individual catalogue,
   or restrict to the list of recently added catalogues.


retrieve the catalogues associated to the 
      acronyms
                  used throughout the literature, the Simbad and 
      NED databases.


find and query catalogues through
VizieR (or with the
VizieR toolbar below)


interrogate and query the collection of data
    with client routines
    that can easily be installed on your local Unix workstation.
        



 Note:
Some of  the catalogues are not (yet) available on-line. 
	These ones should be requested by electronic mail to:
	cds-question@unistra.fr

 


|| Statistical Summary ||
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15685 catalogues available from CDS ...  
... of which  14974 are available on-line (as full ASCII or FITS files) ...
... of which  14408 are also available through the VizieR browser.
 
 




|| Supplying your catalogue ||

||Scientists producing new datasets or astronomical catalogues
are encouraged to make their computer-readable material
and documentation available for distribution
to the worldwide astronomical community, by depositing
a copy in one of the
international astronomical data centers.


For a rapid insertion into the data center archives and into the 
VizieR facility, the authors are advised to
have a look at the guidelines for the preparation 
and submission of catalogues. 
 








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