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Catalog Service:
Observatory Codes

Short name: obscode_web
IVOA Identifier: ivo://org.gavo.dc/obscode/q/queryPublisher: The GAVO DC team
More Info: http://dc.g-vo.org/obscode/q/query/info
VO Compliance: Level 2: This is a VO-compliant resource.
Status: active
Registered: 2010 Mar 03 10:10:00Z
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Description


List of Observatory Codes assigned by the Minor Planet Center (MPC). The codes are used in cataloguing astrometric observations of small bodies in the solar system. A code is unique for a certain location and consists of three digits or one letter and two digits. In this representation, we give the observatory code, the geocentric coordinates, and the observatory designation.

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About the Resource Providers

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Publisher: The GAVO DC team

Creator: Minor Planet Center

Contact Information:
X GAVO Data Centre Team
Email: gavo at ari.uni-heidelberg.de
Address: Mönchhofstrasse 12-14
D-69120 Heidelberg

Status of This Resource

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Version: n/a
Availability: This is an active resource.
  • This service apparently provides only public data
Relevant dates for this Resource:
  • Updated: 2025 Feb 11 21:55:12Z

This resource was registered on: 2010 Mar 03 10:10:00Z
This resource description was last updated on: 2024 Dec 27 08:31:05Z

What This Resource is About

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Resource Class: CatalogService
This resource is a service that provides access to catalog data. You can extract data from the catalog by issuing a query, and the matching data is returned as a table.
Resource type keywords: none provided Subject keywords:
  • catalogs
  • observatories
Intended audience or use: none specified
More Info: http://dc.g-vo.org/obscode/q/query/info Literature Reference: 1983MPC..7759......

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Developed with the support of the National Science Foundation
under Cooperative Agreement AST0122449 with the Johns Hopkins University
The NAVO project is a member of the International Virtual Observatory Alliance

This NAVO Application is hosted by the Space Telescope Science Institute

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