Catalogs

Astronomical Catalog
Search Software

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This software is freely distributed and documented online.
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scat

This program can search all of the catalogs listed here, including the Hubble Space Telescope Guide Star Catalog and Guide Star Catalog II, 2MASS Point Source Catalog, the U.S. Naval Observatory B1.0 Catalog, A2.0 Catalog, SA2.0 Catalog, the Tycho-2 Catalog, and locally catalogued objects in the Starbase format, a very easy-to-set-up ASCII format, or a faster-to-search binary derivative of that ASCII format. It is distributed in very portable and modular C source code as part of the WCSTools package.

imcat

This program find all of the sources in any of the catalogs listed above which are found in the area bounded by an image with a world coordinate system defined in its header.

rgsc

This program for searching the Hubble Space Telescope Guide Star Catalog CDROMs is written in Fortran and C. Binaries are distributed for Solaris and Digital Unix; source code is available on request. It is mostly superceded by scat.

star

This program for searching ASCII and formatted binary star catalogs is written in Fortran and C. SAO, IRAS, and PPM catalogs formatted for this program are available. Binary executable files are distributed for Solaris and Digital Unix; source code is available on request.. It is mostly superceded by scat.

skymap

A program for mapping star catalogs onto the sky

skypic

A program for making star catalogs into images on the sky

Other SAO TDC Astronomical Software


Last updated 30 December 2011 by Jessica Mink