J/A+A/530/A93ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/530/A93doi:10.26093/cds/vizier.35300093CDSVerbuntF.van GentR.H.2017-09-29T09:02:32Z2013-01-15T10:14:50ZCDS support team

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cds-question@unistra.frcatalogsastrometryde Houtman in 1603, Kepler in 1627 and Halley in 1679 published the earliest modern catalogues of the southern sky. We provide machine-readable versions of these catalogues, make some comparisons between them, and briefly discuss their accuracy on the basis of comparison with data from the modern Hipparcos Catalogue. We also compare our results for de Houtman with those by Knobel (1917) finding good overall agreement. About half of the about 200 new stars (with respect to Ptolemaios) added by de Houtman are in twelve new constellations, half in old constellations like Centaurus, Lupus and Argo. The right ascensions and declinations given by de Houtman have error distributions with widths of about 40-arcmin, the longitudes and latitudes given by Kepler have error distributions with widths of about 45-arcmin. Halley improves on this by more than an order of magnitude to widths of about 3-arcmin, and all entries in his catalogue can be identified. The measurement errors of Halley are due to a systematic deviation of his sextant (increasing with angle to 2-arcmin at 60-degrees) and random errors of 0.7-arcmin. The position errors in the catalogue of Halley are dominated by the position errors in the reference stars, which he took from Brahe.2011A&A...530A..93Vhttps://cdsarc.cds.unistra.fr/viz-bin/cat/J/A+A/530/A93CatalogResearchIsServedByTAP VizieR generic serviceIsServedByConesearch servicerelated-toI/239 : The Hipparcos and Tycho Catalogues (ESA 1997)J/A+A/516/A28 : Star catalogue of Tycho Brahe (1627) (Verbunt+, 2010)J/A+A/516/A29 : Star catalogue of Hevelius (1690) (Verbunt+, 2010)https://cds.unistra.fr/vizier-org/licences_vizier.htmlhttps://vizier.cds.unistra.fr/viz-bin/VizieR-2?-source=J/A+A/530/A93https://vizier.iucaa.in/viz-bin/VizieR-2?-source=J/A+A/530/A93http://vizieridia.saao.ac.za/viz-bin/VizieR-2?-source=J/A+A/530/A93https://vizier.cds.unistra.fr/viz-bin/votable?-source=J/A+A/530/A93https://vizier.iucaa.in/viz-bin/votable?-source=J/A+A/530/A93http://vizieridia.saao.ac.za/viz-bin/votable?-source=J/A+A/530/A93GETtext/xml+votablehttps://tapvizier.cds.unistra.fr/TAPVizieR/tapCone 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45720-45721 45746 45752 45858 45865 45874 45927 45930 45964 45983 46022 46024 46081 46084 46096 46131 46236 46273 46281 46321 46334 46367 46436 46459 46469 46482 46615 46681 46707 46767 46775 46802 46835 46845 46908 46915 46918 46939 46982 47021 47028 47052 47056 47112 47117 47121 47126 47140 47188 47353 47361 47424 47514 47593 47640 47648 47667 47672 47678 47682 47688 47703 47714-47715 47717 47728 47734 47740 47742 47745 47763 47775 47797 47809 47811 47820 47824-47825 47845 47967 47990-47991 47997 48037 48051 48101 48104 48136 48147 48188 48203https://cdsarc.cds.unistra.fr/viz-bin/moc/J/A+A/530/A93?format=asciiOpticaldefaultJ/A+A/530/A93/houtmanStar Catalogue of de Houtman (1603)recnoRecord number assigned by the VizieR team. Should Not be used for identification.meta.recordintF[1/304] Sequence number in de Houtman (1603) Cataloguemeta.id;meta.mainintC[1/21] Sequence number of constellationmeta.idintcstAbbreviation of constellation namemeta.idcharN[1/56] Sequence number of star in constellationmeta.idintRA[0/360] Degrees of right ascension (1)pos.eq.raDEDegrees of declination (1)pos.eq.decVfmagnitude as given by de Houtman (9=nebulous)phot.mag;em.optintHIPHipparcos number of identificationmeta.id.crossintI[1,6] Quality of identification (G3)meta.codeintv.Kflag indicating comparison with Knobel (2)meta.codeintVmagMagnitude of Hipparcos identificationphot.mag;em.opt.VfloatD-RADifference in RA: Hipparcos-Houtmanarcminpos;arith.difffloatD-DEDifference in DE: Hipparcos-Houtmanarcminpos;arith.difffloatDelOffset between de Houtman star and identificationarcminpos;arith.difffloatSimbadSimbad column added by the CDSmeta.ref.urlchar_RARight Ascension (J2000) from I/239/hip_maindegpos.eq.ra;meta.mainnullable_DEDeclination (J2000) from I/239/hip_maindegpos.eq.dec;meta.mainnullableJ/A+A/530/A93/classis3Kepler's Secunda and Tertia Classis, and Variants on Secunda Classis (1627)recnoRecord number assigned by the VizieR team. Should Not be used for identification.meta.recordintn_KSimbad column added by the CDSmeta.notecharK[1005/1438] Sequence number in Classis Catalogue (1)meta.id;meta.mainintC[1/62] Sequence number of constellation (2)meta.numberintcstAbbreviation of constellation namemeta.idcharN[1/63] Sequence number of star in constellation (3)meta.numberintElon[1,12] Zodiakal sign of ecliptic longitude, Equinox AD1601 (G1)pos.ecliptic.lonElatDegrees of ecliptic latitude (G2)pos.ecliptic.latVK[1,9] Magnitude as given by Kepler (4)phot.mag;em.optintHIPHipparcos number of identificationmeta.id.crossintI[1,6] Quality of identification (G3)meta.codeintVmagMagnitude of Hipparcos identificationphot.mag;em.opt.VfloatDlonDifference in longitude: Hipparcos-Keplerarcminpos;arith.difffloatDlatDifference in latitude: Hipparcos-Keplerarcminpos;arith.difffloatDelOffset between Kepler star and identificationarcminpos;arith.difffloatP[0/1028] Corresponding sequence number in Ptolemaios (5)meta.id.crossintv.PFlag indicating comparison with Ptolemaios (5)meta.codeintSimbadSimbad column added by the CDSmeta.ref.urlchar_RARight Ascension (J2000) from I/239/hip_maindegpos.eq.ra;meta.mainnullable_DEDeclination (J2000) from I/239/hip_maindegpos.eq.dec;meta.mainnullableJ/A+A/530/A93/halleyStar catalogue of Halley (1679)recnoRecord number assigned by the VizieR team. Should Not be used for identification.meta.recordintESequence number in Halley cataloguemeta.id;meta.mainintCSequence number of constellationmeta.numberintcstAbbreviation of constellation namemeta.idcharN[1/46] Sequence number of star in constellationmeta.numberintElon[1,12] Zodiakal sign of ecliptic longitude, Equinox AD 1678 (G1)pos.ecliptic.lonElatDegrees of ecliptic latitude, Equinox 1678 (G2)pos.ecliptic.latVEMagnitude as given by Halley (9=nebulous)phot.mag;em.optfloatHIP1? Hipparcos number of first standard star (2)meta.id.crossintnullabled1? Degrees of angle to first standard star (2)pos;arith.diffnullableHIP2? Hipparcos number of second standard star (2)meta.id.crossintnullabled2? Degrees of angle to second standard star (2)pos;arith.diffnullableHIP? Hipparcos number of identificationmeta.id.crossintnullableI[1,6] Quality of identification (G3)meta.codeintVmag? Magnitude of Hipparcos identificationphot.mag;em.opt.VfloatnullableDlon? Difference in longitude: Hipparcos-Keplerarcminpos;arith.difffloatnullableDlat? Difference in latitude: Hipparcos-Keplerarcminpos;arith.difffloatnullableDel? Offset between Kepler star and identificationarcminpos;arith.difffloatnullableHIP3? Hipparcos number of third standard star (3)meta.id.crossintnullabled3? Degrees of angle to third standard star (3)pos;arith.diffnullableHIP4? Hipparcos number of fourth standard star (3)meta.id.crossintnullabled4? Degrees of angle to fourth standard star (3)pos;arith.diffnullableSimbadSimbad column added by the CDSmeta.ref.urlchar_RARight Ascension (J2000) from I/239/hip_maindegpos.eq.ra;meta.mainnullable_DEDeclination (J2000) from I/239/hip_maindegpos.eq.dec;meta.mainnullable