StarCat2 Documentation

Documentation for StarCat2 - The IRTF's Star Catalog Program. Release 2.

1. User's Guide

    sc2_guide.pdf.
    sc2_guide.doc (MSWord).
2. Dictionary of Commands
    sc2_dict.pdf.
    sc2_dict.doc (MSWord).
4. Catalog summary IRTF star catalogs are listed below. From the orginial source, we have reduced the number of stars to those within -59 to +70 Dec (The IRTF Field of View). 
   Name     Description                          NumObjects
   bsc5     Bright Star Catalog, 5th Ed.            8,102
   fk5      Fifth Fundamental Catalog               3,941
   sao      SAO Star Catalog                      235,500
   irtf                                                96
   hd       Henry Draper Catalog                  286,780
   hd.sao   SAO Henry Draper Subset               171,403
   ukirt    UKIRT Faint Standards, Revised Ed.        112
   gsc      Guide Star Catalog                 21,709,092
4. Programmer's Notes
    3.1. Notes on where various star catalogs were obtained and if anything special need to be done to prepare the for cat build.

    3.2. Notes and insights on building the star catalogs from the raw catalog data.
5. Historical Log
    2002 Log
    2001 Log