USNO-B Catalog ConeSearch Virtual Observatory Resource

Authors
  1. Space Telescope Science Institute Catalogs and Surveys Branch
  2. Published by
    Space Telescope Science Institute Archive
Abstract
 
USNO-B is an all-sky catalog that presents positions, proper motions, magnitudes in various optical
passbands, and star/galaxy estimators for 1,042,618,261 objects derived from 3,643,201,733 separate
observations. The data were obtained from scans of 7435 Schmidt plates taken for the various sky surveys
during the last 50 years. USNO-B1.0 is believed to provide all-sky coverage, completeness down to V = 21,
0>2 astrometric accuracy at J2000, 0.3 mag photometric accuracy in up to five colors, and 85% accuracy for
distinguishing stars from nonstellar objects.
A more detailed description of the construction and contents of the USNO-B1 catalog can be found in Monet et al. 
(2003, "The USNO-B Catalog", AJ, 125, 984), http://www.usno.navy.mil/USNO/astrometry/optical-IR-prod/usno-b1.0/resolveuid/41be0c1a4d1a8372289bad3baf27cde5.

A mirror of USNOB exists in the MAST holdings and is thus available as a cone search.
All available catalogs are listed at http://archive.stsci.edu/vo/mast_services.html.
Keywords
  1. Observational astronomy
  2. Surveys
See also HTML
http://archive.stsci.edu/vo/mast_services.html
IVOA Identifier IVOID
ivo://archive.stsci.edu/catalogs/USNOB

Access

IVOA Cone Search SCS
For use with a cone search client (e.g., TOPCAT).
http://gsss.stsci.edu/webservices/vo/ConeSearch.aspx?CAT=USNOB&

History

2017-06-07T17:57:38Z
Resource record created

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