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J/A+AS/91/371   Extragalactic Database IV. Errors and misprints  (Paturel+ 1991)
An Extragalactic Database.
IV. Errors and misprints in catalogues of galaxies.
    Paturel G., Petit C., Kogoshvili N., Dubois P., Bottinelli L.,
    Fouque P., Garnier R., Gouguenheim L.
    <Astron. Astrophys. Suppl. Ser. 91, 371 (1991)>
    =1991A&AS...91..371P
ADC_Keywords: Galaxy catalogs

Keywords: galaxies


File Summary:

       FileName      Lrecl  Records   Explanations

ReadMe            80        .   This file
table1           136      357   NGC/IC with several names (Equinox=1950)
table2           136      924   Errors in MCG etc... (Equinox=1950)
table3           136      292   Errors in PGC (Equinox=2000)


See also:
    VII/119  Catalogue  (Catalogue of Principal Galaxies, PGC)
    VII/136  Catalogue  (An Extragalactic Database II. The HI data)


Byte-by-byte Description of file: table1 table2 table3

   Bytes Format Units   Label     Explanations

   2- 21  A20   ---     NAME      Name of the galaxy as appearing in the
                                  original catalogue
  23- 24  I2    h       RAh       Right Ascension 1950 (hours)
  25- 26  I2    min     RAm       Right Ascension 1950 (minutes)
  27- 30  F4.1  s       RAs       Right Ascension 1950 (seconds)
      31  A1    ---     DE-       Declination 1950 (sign)
  32- 33  I2    deg     DEd       Declination 1950 (degrees)
  34- 35  I2    arcmin  DEm       Declination 1950 (minutes)
  36- 37  I2    arcsec  DEs       Declination 1950 (seconds)
      43  I1    ---     code     *[1,5] Code describing the kind of error:
  47-136  A90   ---     Comments  Complete explanation of the error

Note on code: it takes the following values:
     1 error in coordinates
     2 error in name
     3 missing name
     4 miscellaneous
     5 not a galaxy, or merged with another galaxy

(End)                                    Francois Ochsenbein [CDS]   04-Jan-1993