The Marginal Zone of the Moon - Watts' Charts Virtual Observatory Resource

Authors
  1. Watts C.B.
  2. Published by
    CDS
Abstract

The WATTS' charts provide the elevation of the limb of the moon using 1800 contour maps (step of 0.2deg) that cover all libration ranges of the moon. The contours of the maps were digitised by H.M. Nautical Almanac Office in the late 1960's, and then converted to a grid format by US Naval Observatory in the early 1970's. These charts are present in 2 forms: as an ascii file watts.dat (without carriage-return or line-feed!), or as a 3-D FITS file watts.fit (transformed from the ascii files with the program "make_fit.c"). More details, especially about the transformations between the original charts and the files stored here, and the special processing of the 36.0{deg} map (map#181), can be found in the "doc.txt" file.

Keywords
  1. solar-system
  2. occultation
Bibliographic source
Astron. Papers for the preparation of the Nautical Almanach XVII (1963)
See also HTML
https://cdsarc.cds.unistra.fr/viz-bin/cat/VI/122
IVOA Identifier IVOID
ivo://CDS.VizieR/VI/122

Access

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http://vizier.cds.unistra.fr/viz-bin/VizieR-2?-source=VI/122
https://vizier.iucaa.in/viz-bin/VizieR-2?-source=VI/122
http://vizieridia.saao.ac.za/viz-bin/VizieR-2?-source=VI/122
IVOA Table Access TAP
http://tapvizier.cds.unistra.fr/TAPVizieR/tap
Run SQL-like queries with TAP-enabled clients (e.g., TOPCAT).

History

2006-12-04T16:57:51Z
Resource record created
2006-12-04T16:16:40Z
Updated
2006-12-04T16:57:51Z
Created

Contact

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Postal Address
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E-Mail
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