Astronomical Source Catalogues
A miscellany (or dog's breakfast) of astronomical catalogues, most without any accompanying documentation. Caveat emptor!
- ATCA
Calibrator Source Catalogue (plain text).
- PKSCAT :
Original & complete machine-readable version of Parkes Catalogue
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PKSCAT90 :
Updated source compilation based on Parkes Catalogue
Preamble
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PMN :
Parkes-MIT-NRAO 5GHz survey (Official Web page at Parkes)
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PMN :
Parkes-MIT-NRAO 5GHz survey (local copies of Southern source catalogues)
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GB6 :
GB6: Northern part of PMN survey (Condon et al.), B1950 version,
NB: 6MB long!
- ATCA catalogue of compact PMN sources, (Tasker, N. Ph.D Thesis)
- CATS Database Catalogs and interactive spectrum plotting of sources.
- PTI:
Compact sources measured with the PTI (Duncan et al., Proc. ASA, 10,310 (1993)
- MRC:
The original Molonglo 408MHz Reference Catalogue
- MRC:
The Molonglo 408MHz Reference Catalogue in J2000 coordinates
- Bologna :
The Bologna 408MHz Catalogue
- Preston et al. :
A VLBI all-sky survey at 2.3GHz (Preston et al. 1985)
- Parkes Half-Jansky Catalogue: Identifications and accurate positions for all Parkes sources > 0.5Jy (Drinkwater et al. 1996)
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Other Radio surveys :
More radio surveys (via Parkes)
- ADC Radio Source Meta-Catalogue: The Astronomical Data Center's (NASA) listing of radio source catalogues
- Miscellanea :
The full ugly collection of bits and pieces
ATNF library holdings of CD-ROM/diskette surveys and catalogues
- CARLSBERG Meridian Catalogue La Palma, 1 CD
- Digitised Sky Survey :
- Digitised STScI sky surveys: Pt 1 (South) 61 CDs, Pt 2 (North) 41 CDs
- Einstein Observatory database of HRI X-ray images, 2 CDs
- Einstein Observatory catalog of IPC X-ray sources, 3 CDs
- Green Bank sky maps and radio source catalog (NRAO), 1 CD
- Guide Star Catalog, Version 1.1 (STScI), 2 CD
- Guide Star survey sampler (STScI), 1 CD
- Hipparcos Input Catalogue and HICIS, Ver 1, 1 CD + 2 disks
- Images from the radio universe (NRAO), 1 CD
- IRAS Sky survey Atlas: images for ecliptic latitude > 50d (JPL), 4 CDs
- IRAS Sky Survey Atlas, V., II., Co-added images for entire sky;
- individual HCON images for |b| < 50d, 2 CDs
- Molonglo Reference Catalogue of Radio Sources, 1 disk
- PGC-ROM 1992: catalogue of principal galaxies: Lyon-Meudon
- Extragalactic Database, 1 CD, 2 disks
- PKSCAT90: the Southen Radio Databse, V 1.01, 2 disks
- ROSAT: V. 1 the images (LHEA/HEASARC), 1 CD
- Selected astronomical catalogues V 1-4 (NSSDC), 2 disks
- 2nd Epoch Digitised Sky Survey, ?? CDs
Other links of possible interest
- The SIMBAD Astronomical Database, run by the Centre de Données astronomiques de Strasbourg.
- SkyView Skyview enables you to see any field in the sky at optical, radio, or other wavelengths. Try using it instead of the Sky-survey CDROMs or COSMOS.
- NED NASA Extrgalactic Database. Easier to use than Simbad, and lots of data + references for your favourite object, but restricted to extragalactic objects. Login to ned.ipac.caltech.edu as user "ned". No password is needed.
- VLA Sky Survey