Study of the COSC Korean astronomical catalogue Virtual Observatory Resource

Authors
  1. Jeon J.
  2. Lee Y.B.
  3. Lee Y.-S.
  4. Published by
    CDS
Abstract

The study of old star catalogues provides important astrometric data. Most of the researches based on the old star catalogues were manuscript published in Europe and from Arabic/Islam. However, the old star catalogues published in East Asia did not get attention. Therefore, among the East Asian star catalogues we focus on a particular catalogue recorded in a Korean almanac. Its catalogue contains 277 stars that are positioned in a region within 10{deg} of the ecliptic plane. The stars in the catalogue were identified using the modern Hipparcos catalogue (Cat. I/239). We identified 274 among 277 stars, which is a rate of 98.9 percent. The catalogue records the epoch of the stars' positions as AD 1396.0. However, by using all of the identified stars we found that the initial epoch of the catalogue is AD 1363.1+/-3.2. In conclusion, the star catalogue was compiled and edited from various older star catalogues. We assume a correlation with the Almagest by Ptolemaios. This study presents newly analysed results from the historically important astronomical data discovered in East Asia. Therefore, this star catalogue will become important data for comparison with the star catalogues published in Europe and from Arabic/Islam.

Keywords
  1. catalogs
  2. astrometry
  3. apparent-magnitude
  4. stellar-distance
Bibliographic source Bibcode
2015MNRAS.454.1086J
See also HTML
https://cdsarc.cds.unistra.fr/viz-bin/cat/J/MNRAS/454/1086
IVOA Identifier IVOID
ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/454/1086

Access

Web browser access HTML
http://vizier.cds.unistra.fr/viz-bin/VizieR-2?-source=J/MNRAS/454/1086
https://vizier.iucaa.in/viz-bin/VizieR-2?-source=J/MNRAS/454/1086
http://vizieridia.saao.ac.za/viz-bin/VizieR-2?-source=J/MNRAS/454/1086
IVOA Table Access TAP
http://tapvizier.cds.unistra.fr/TAPVizieR/tap
Run SQL-like queries with TAP-enabled clients (e.g., TOPCAT).
IVOA Cone Search SCS
For use with a cone search client (e.g., TOPCAT).
http://vizier.cds.unistra.fr/viz-bin/conesearch/J/MNRAS/454/1086/tableb?
https://vizier.iucaa.in/viz-bin/conesearch/J/MNRAS/454/1086/tableb?
http://vizieridia.saao.ac.za/viz-bin/conesearch/J/MNRAS/454/1086/tableb?

History

2018-01-15T09:56:23Z
Resource record created
2018-01-15T09:56:23Z
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2018-05-16T06:47:39Z
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