ARI's "Geschichte des Fixsternhimmels" is an attempt to collect all
astrometrically useful observations from before ca. 1970 in a way
comparable to what has been done to construct the FK* series of
fundamental catalogs. About 7e6 published positions are included.
In GAVO's DC, we provide tables of identified and non-identified stars
together with the master catalog that objects were identified against.
The catalogue ARIHIP has been constructed by selecting the 'best
data' for a given star from combinations of HIPPARCOS data with Boss'
GC and/or the Tycho-2 catalogue as well as the FK6. It provides 'best
data' for 90 842 stars with a typical mean error of 0.89 mas/year
(about a factor of 1.3 better than Hipparcos for this sample of
stars).
PPMXL is a catalog of positions, proper motions, 2MASS- and optical
photometry of 900 million stars and galaxies, aiming to be complete
down to about V=20 full-sky. It is the result of a re-reduction of
USNO-B1 together with 2MASS to the ICRS as represented by PPMX.
The Fifth Catalogue of Nearby Stars (CNS5) aims to provide the most
volume-complete sample of stars in the solar neighbourhood. The CNS5
is compiled based on trigonometric parallaxes from Gaia EDR3 and
Hipparcos, and supplemented with astrometric data from Spitzer and
ground-based surveys carried out in the infrared. The CNS5 catalogue
is statistically complete down to 19.7 mag in G-band and 11.8 mag in
W1-band absolute magnitudes, corresponding to a spectral type of L8.
Continuous updates of observational data for nearby stars from all
sources were collected and evaluated. For all known stars in the 25 pc
sphere around the Sun, the best values of positions in space,
velocities, and magnitudes in different filters are presented.