FON Astrographic Catalogue (FONAC, Version 2.0) containing more then 2.0 million stars (J2000, epoch 1991.25)
Short Name:
FONAC_Version2.0
Date:
20 Feb 2014 21:58:06
Publisher:
Nikolaev Astronomical Observatory
Description:
The FONAC 2.0 is a compiled catalogue of positions, proper motions and photometric data for 2,005,137 stars between declinations of +90° and -2°. The mean epoch of positions is 1988.19. The catalogue was compiled using a new reduction of measurements for more than 1700 plates, which were obtained with the wide-angle astrograph of the Main Astronomical Observatory in Ukraine within the FON project. The acronym FON (Russian, Ukrainian) stands for Photographic Survey of the Northern Sky. The ACT Reference Catalogue as well as the Guide Star and USNO A2.0 catalogues were applied for the reductions of positions and determination of photometric characteristics of stars. Median precision of the FONAC data are ±200 mas, ±3 mas/year and ±0.18 mag in positions, proper motions and magnitudes of stars, respectively.
XPM catalogue containing absolute proper motions for more then 280 million stars (J2000, epoch 2000.0)
Short Name:
XPM_ConeSearch
Date:
17 Jun 2019 14:54:24
Publisher:
Nikolaev Astronomical Observatory
Description:
We combined data from 2MASS and USNO-A2.0 catalogues in order to derive the absolute proper motions of about 314 million stars distributed all over the sky without gaps in the V magnitude range 10 mag to 20 mag. The proper motions were derived from 2MASS Point Sources and USNO-A2.0 catalogue positions, with the mean epoch difference of about 45 years for the northern hemisphere, and about 17 years for the southern one. Most of the systematic zonal errors inherent in the USNO-A2.0 catalogue were eliminated before calculation of the proper motions. The zero-point of the absolute proper motion frame (the absolute calibration) was specified with the use of about 1.1 million of extended sources from 2MASS and USNO-A2.0. In fields covering the zone of avoidance or those that contain fewer than 25 galaxies, quasi-absolute calibration was performed. The mean formal error of absolute calibration is less than 1 mas/yr. The catalogue contains ICRS positions of stars at 2000.0 epoch, original absolute proper motions, as well as F, J, V, N magnitudes from GSC2.3; B, R magnitudes from USNO-A2.0 and J, H, Ks magnitudes from 2MASS.
