CARLSBERG MERIDIAN CATALOGUES LA PALMA Numbers 1 to 11 Observations of positions of stars and planets May 1984 to May 1998 including Extinction and Meteorological data Copenhagen University Observatory Royal Greenwich Observatory Real Instituto y Observatorio de la Armada en San Fernando 1999 INTRODUCTION ------------ This composite catalogue contains 180 812 positions and magnitudes of 176 591 stars north of declination -40 deg, 155 005 proper motions, and 25 848 positions and magnitudes of 184 Solar System objects obtained with the Carlsberg Automatic Meridian Circle on La Palma during the period May 1984 to May 1998. It includes Carlsberg Meridian Catalogues Numbers 1 to 11 (CMC1-11); i.e. it comprises all the observations made since the instrument began operation on La Palma. The positions of the stars are for the epoch of observation and the equinox J2000.0, and are referred to the new International Celestial Reference Frame. The limiting magnitude is V = 15.4. The catalogue mainly comprises positions and proper motions for the following programmes: 36000 International Reference Stars 30000 faint reference stars in a global net 18000 reference stars in the fields of radio sources 17000 stars in the Lick Northern Proper Motion catalogue 5000 reference stars for calibration of Schmidt plates 2600 stars in the Gliese catalogue of nearby stars 5000 stars in nearby OB associations 10500 F-type stars within 100 pc 9000 G-type d&g, K-type g stars within 300 pc 2200 unbiassed sample of K/M-type d stars 19400 reference stars near Veron-Cetty galaxies 4700 variable stars (12-14 mag) in GCVS 12400 stars (11-14 mag) with pm>0".18/yr in NLTT and several smaller programmes mainly aimed at galactic kinematics. Positions and magnitudes of 12 novae and 8 supernovae which occurred in the years 1991 to 1998 are included. The catalogue also contains observations of the following Solar System objects: Callisto, Ganymede, Rhea, Titan, Iapetus, Hyperion, Uranus, Oberon, Neptune, Pluto and 173 minor planets and Comet P/Wild2. The mean error of a catalogue position in the zenith is 0".09 in right ascension and declination in CMC1-6, improving to 0".06 in CMC7-11. The accuracy in magnitude is 0.05 mag in CMC1-10, improving to 0.03 mag in CMC11. The mean error of the proper motions, derived by combining the position in this catalogue with those at earlier epochs, is typically in the range 0".003 to 0".004 per year. Cross-references are given to DM, AGK, SAO, HD and the double star catalogues ADS and WDS. The catalogue also contains 12 216 mean annual observed positions of the FK5 stars used to transfer the instrumental system to the FK5 frame in the years 1984 to 1995. A compilation of all the meteorological data collected in the years 1984-1998, including the atmospheric extinction, is appended. CONTENTS OF THE CD-ROM ---------------------- The CD-ROM contains the following ASCII files: Name Lrec Nrec description -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. readme.txt This file 2. intcmc11.tex Introduction to, and Explanation of, the catalogue, containing file layouts for stars, planets etc: LaTeX file to be used with the style file, cmc11.sty 3. cmc11.sty Style file for intcmc11.tex 4. intcmc11.ps Postscript file of the Introduction to the catalogue. 5. star1.dat 80 361624 CMC1-11 star catalogue: 2 records per star. Positions (in decimal), proper motions and V magnitudes of 180812 stars; equinox J2000.0 and epoch of observation, referred to ICRF; cross-references to DM, SAO, GC, AGK, HD, and Washington Double Star catalogues; increasing order of RA except for repeated entries of stars, where epoch takes precedence. 6. star2.dat 80 180812 CMC1-11 star catalogue: 1 record per star. Positions (in sexagesimal), proper motions and magnitudes of 180812 stars; equinox J2000.0 and epoch of observation; cross-reference to DM. File also split up into hours of RA - see files star2hh.dat (hh=00-23) following. 7. star200.dat 80 7216 CMC1-11 star catalogue; 00h RA 8. star201.dat 80 7026 01 9. star202.dat 80 7074 02 10. star203.dat 80 6633 03 11. star204.dat 80 6381 04 12. star205.dat 80 6550 05 13. star206.dat 80 6684 06 14. star207.dat 80 6512 07 15. star208.dat 80 6338 08 16. star209.dat 80 6123 09 17. star210.dat 80 5991 10 18. star211.dat 80 6315 11 19. star212.dat 80 7104 12 20. star213.dat 80 7485 13 21. star214.dat 80 7711 14 22. star215.dat 80 7942 15 23. star216.dat 80 8631 16 24. star217.dat 80 8723 17 25. star218.dat 80 9321 18 26. star219.dat 80 9423 19 27. star220.dat 80 9540 20 28. star221.dat 80 9163 21 29. star222.dat 80 8675 22 30. star223.dat 80 8251 CMC1-11 star catalogue; 23h RA. 31. nltt.dat 84 12405 Positions and proper motions of mainly NLTT stars in CMC1-11 with proper motions greater than 0".18/yr and with magnitudes in the range 11