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V/135A Uranometria Argentina catalog of bright southern stars (Gould, 1879)
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Resultados del Observatorio Nacional Argentino en Cordoba, Vol.1: Uranometria
Argentina.
Brightness and position of every fixed star, down to the seventh magnitude
within one hundred degrees of the South Pole.
Gould B.G.
<Resultados del Observatorio Nacional Argentino en Cordoba ; v. 1,
Buenos Aires : Impr. de P.E. Coni, 1879., xv, 385 p. ; 32 cm.>
=1879RNAO....1.....G
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ADC_Keywords: Historical catalog ; Cross identifications ; Constellations
Description:
In 1879 Benjamin Apthorp Gould published in Buenos Aires, Argentina,
the Uranometria Argentina catalog of 7756 stars south of declination
+10 degrees. This included all those stars he considered magnitude 7
or brighter and some fainter stars which are close companions to
brighter stars or to each other and have combined magnitude 7 or
brighter. Star positions are in 1875 coordinates, and constellation
boundaries also in 1875 coordinates were defined within the
aforementioned declination range. With only a few small changes these
were incorporated into the boundaries adopted by the IAU in 1930 and
subsequently universally accepted. In terms of accurate photoelectric
magnitude measurements the Uranometria Argentina is nearly complete to
magnitude 6.5 in its declination range.
In each constellation the individual stars considered to be magnitude
7 and brighter were numbered in sequence of increasing right ascension
in 1875 coordinates, except that in a few cases this sequence was
somewhat adjusted so that stars close together could be listed on
adjacent lines of text. The numbering system is analogous to that in
the Flamsteed Catalogus Brittanicus and now widely used. Star numbers
from the Uranometria Argentina rarely appear in the 21st century
despite the potential utility of their use. They were included in the
American Ephemeris and Nautical Almanac until 1978, and in the FK5
catalog until 1999, always with the letter G following the number in
the Uranometria Argentina catalog. This serves to distinguish
Flamsteed numbers with no following letters from Gould numbers, and is
utilized in this presentation and recommended for general use.
The file catalog.dat includes every star in the original Uranometria
Argentina. In the original the constellations were presented in
sequence of increasing distance from the south pole and numbered
accordingly. For the convenience of 21st century astronomers the
constellations are presented here by alphabetical sequence in
constellation name and the stars in each constellation in the same
sequence as in the original. A separate file notes.txt includes a
large number of notes for individual stars and for groups of stars
recognized in the original catalog as belonging together. Each note is
referenced by an asterisk * in the file catalog.dat. Columns 43-63
provide J2000 coordinates and cross identifications from the
Flamsteed, HD, and SAO catalogs for the stars and have been added by
the author of this data set. Columns 82-154 have been copied verbatim
from the Uranometria Argentina catalogue, except that where asterisks
are shown errors in the original printed catalogue have been corrected
and the originally published values are stated in the notes.
Two publications state corrections to the printed Uranometria
Argentina. These are by B.A. Gould, Astronomische Nachrichten 116,
379-382 (1887AN....116..379G), and by T. W. Backhouse, Astronomical
Journal 12, 112 (1892AJ.....12Q.112B). All of these, and a few others,
mostly typographical misprints found by the present author, are
presented in this digital version.